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Mohnish Pabrai visited Dakshana Scholar Lakhan Singh Jatav’s home in Alwar, Rajasthan. Lakhan’s family is landless and extremely poor, 2009

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Dakshana offers the 2-year coaching program exclusively to students of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas (JNV). Dakshana has inducted 2900+ students in this program since 2007. More than 1400 of Dakshana Scholars, till 2017, have cracked the JEE Advanced to secure admissions into IITs, while the others have cleared the AIEEE or JEE Mains to pursue an education in engineering and science at premium institutions like NIT and others in the country. One in every two Dakshana Scholars has cracked the IIT entrance examination.

Dakshana’s 2-year coaching program currently operates at 7 JNV Campuses:

JNV Bengaluru Urban (Karnataka), JNV Bundi (Rajasthan), JNV Kottayam (Kerala), JNV Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh), JNV Pune (Maharashtra), JNV Rangareddy (Telangana) & JNV Silvassa (Dadra & Nagar Haveli).

 

The first-of-its-kind Dakshana-Navodaya Centre of Excellence (COE) commenced at JNV Bengaluru Urban in the year 2016. This is an excellent model depicting the success of the private-public partnership between Dakshana and the Government of India.

FELLOWSHIP YEAR OVERVIEW

Dakshana selects students for coaching after they finish Class 10 and based on their performance at Dakshana’s proprietary test – Navodaya Dakshana Selection Test (NDST).

Navodaya Dakshana Selection Test (NDST)

The NDST is conducted simultaneously at 77+ centres across India between the last week of February and March every year. The test is divided into four parts: Logical Reasoning, Mathematics/Biology, Physics and Chemistry. The subject-related questions follow the NCERT syllabus of Class 9 and Class 10, although the level of difficulty for questions might be higher.

Eligibility

Dakshana invites JNV students for NDST, through their schools, based on merit at internal examinations during Class 9 and 10. Dakshana accepts these results only from the JNVs through their respective NVS Regional Offices. Non-JNV students are not eligible for this program.

Process

Once invited for the NDST, a JNV student must fill the NDST application form on the Dakshana website.
The Dakshana website posts the list of students invited for NDST a month before the test.
The results of NDST are normally declared in the first week of April/May. A scholar, who receives the Dakshana coaching opportunity, then goes to an assigned JNV where Dakshana provides world-class quality preparation for the IIT or medical Entrance Exam.

News & Events

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    Dakshana Day 2019!

    A family is like the branches on a tree; we all grow in different directions yet our roots remain the same. And this was evident in the Dakshana Day celebrations on October 15, this year. Dakshana alums at various IITs, NITs, Govt medical colleges and other premier institutes, visited government schools in their areas and […] [READ MORE]
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    PRMO (pre-Regional Mathematical Olympiad) 2019 results are out!

    Here are COE- wise results- JNV Bundi- 35 cleared JNV Ranga Reddy- 28 cleared JNV Bangalore- 69 cleared Congratulations everyone! #TheDakshanaFoundation #InfiniteGood #SelflessGiving #PRMO [READ MORE]
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    Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment visits Dakshana’s V2.0 school at Amravathi!

    On September 10, 2019, The Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Sanjay Kohli visited the digital math lab under Dakshana V2.0 program at the APSWREIS School in Amravathi. #TheDakshanaFoundation #InfiniteGood #SelflessGiving #DakshanaV2.0 [READ MORE]
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    18 Dakshana scholars receive Panasonic Ratti Chhatr Scholarship 2019!

    Congratulations to Dakshana scholars for receiving Panasonic scholarship 2019! This scholarship has been awarded to only 30 students from all over IITs, out of which 18 Dakshana scholars have been selected this year. Heartiest congratulations to- 1. Aman Sharma (IIT BHU) 2. Ishu Gupta (IIT BHU) 3. Rinki (IIT BHU) 4. Nancy (IIT Guwahati) 5. Pritam [READ MORE]

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