Hinduja Foundation launches great 'iCare' for government school students

Hinduja Foundation launches great 'iCare' for government school students
Published at : 6 Sep 2020, 11:58 PM IST
Updated at : 8 Aug 2021, 2:21 PM IST

Hinduja Foundation, a philanthropic unit of Hinduja Group launched ‘iCare: Volunteer from Home’ initiative that engages Hinduja group companies’ employees as COVID-19 warriors.

The initiative of Hinduja Foundation aimed at reaching the deprived and the underprivileged students across the country and deliver quality education.

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Hinduja Foundation

With the programme being underway, Hinduja Foundation looks to progressively examine the possibility of enhancing the scope of the program to support its (Road to School) RTS target group of 80000 kids across multiple states.

The programme of Hinduja Foundation has covered Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Telangana.

As a part of the programme of Hinduja Foundation, 6 different language preferences were offered wherein the highest number of sessions were undertaken in Hindi followed by Tamil.

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Learning Links Foundation, an NGO working with several of the Hinduja Group Companies, also extended
its support to the iCare program of Hinduja Foundation by implementing all the on-field volunteering activities.

Mr. Paul Abraham, President, Hinduja Foundation said, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been critical in the country’s education sector where all the stakeholders are affected, the most vulnerable are the children.

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Amid the physical closure of schools, Covid-19 has also restricted their social engagements like meeting their friends, family or simply playing outside in the playground, hence affecting their overall development.

The ‘iCare: Volunteer From Home’ program of Hinduja Foundation is one of its kind initiative that seeks to not just constructively engage the volunteers, the children (4 to 8 grade level) and their families.

Hinduja Foundation

The interaction of the volunteers under iCare program of Hinduja Foundation was through technology whereby the volunteers, while staying at home, had a choice to conduct 30 minutes sessions.

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These sessions could be conducted using live audio/video calls or pre-recorded audio/videos sessions using commonly available communication mediums, thereby ensuring accessibility to all the beneficiaries.

As part of this initiative by Hinduja Foundation, children were engaged in diverse activities that focused on helping them learn subject-based content better and build skills critical in these challenging times.

These included ‘fun with math’ activities and others that centred on the theme of COVID-19, which were aimed at generating awareness on preventive measures to be taken during the pandemic.

In addition, story-telling sessions, poetry sessions, mentoring sessions, wellness sessions and craft activities kept students interested and gave a boost to their self-esteem and confidence while also nurturing their physical and emotional wellbeing.

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All the target beneficiaries, the parents and especially the children expressed their satisfaction with all the sessions.

About Hinduja Foundation
Deeply rooted on the philanthropic principles of its Founder of Hinduja Group, Parmanand Deepchand Hinduja, this Foundation is a public charitable trust established first in Mumbai in 1968.

In its 50 years of existence, with the guidance of the Hinduja Family and support from Hinduja Group companies, its global presence has led to the development in the fields of Education, Healthcare, Water Stewardship, Sustainable Rural Development, Social Welfare and Arts & Culture.

About Hinduja Group
The Hinduja Group is one of India’s premier diversified and transnational conglomerates.

Employing nearly a 150,000 employees, with presence across 38 countries it has multi-billion dollar revenue.

The Group was founded over a hundred years ago by P.D. Hinduja whose credo was ‘My duty is to work
so that I can give.”

The Group owns businesses in Automotive, Information Technology, Media, Entertainment & Communications, Banking & Finance Services, Infrastructure Project Development, Cyber Security, Oil and Specialty Chemicals, Power, Real Estate, Trading and Healthcare.

The group also supports charitable and philanthropic activities across the world through the Hinduja Foundation.

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S. Vishnu Sharma

S Vishnu Sharmaa now works with collegechalo.com in the news team. His work involves writing articles related to the education sector in India with a keen focus on higher education issues. Journalism has always been a passion for him. He has more than 10 years of enriching experience with various media organizations like Eenadu, Webdunia, News Today, Infodea. He also has a strong interest in writing about defence and railway related issues.

VITEEE 2025 Registration On Till 7 April 2025: All Details Provided Here

VITEEE 2025 Registration On Till 7 April 2025: All Details Provided Here
Published at : 4 Apr 2025, 9:50 AM IST
Updated at : 4 Apr 2025, 9:50 AM IST

VITEEE 2025 Registration is on till 7 April 2025 at ‘https://viteee.vit.ac.in/’ The application submission process began on 4 November 2024. 

The last date for VITEEE 2025 registration was 31 March 2025 earlier, now it has been extended to 7 April 2025.

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Those interested in studying graduation in engineering –  BTech in VIT (Vellore Institute of Technology) can aim for VITEEE 2025 registration which is nothing applying for the exam.

VITEEE 2025 Registration

Candidates who have passed plus two in science stream can take up VITEEE 2025 registration and the exam will be conducted from 21 to 27 April  2025 tentatively.

Students can regularly visit the official website for the exam with the help of URL mentioned above to obtain information and updates.

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Courses and campuses

Students can take up VITEEE 2025 registration and appear for the exam and pass it with required qualifying marks to be eligible for the counselling to gain admission into engineering courses offered in VIT.

Academic programs in engineering graduation are offered across the institution’s campuses located in Vellore, Chennai, Andhra Pradesh, Bhopal and Mauritius.

VITEEE 2025 Registration Eligibility?

VITEEE 2025 registration eligibility criteria is that applicants must have completed 12 years of schooling with Physics, Chemistry, and either Mathematics, Biology, or Biotechnology as mandatory subjects.

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They should have passed plus two from a recognized educational institution in science stream with subjects as maths, physics and chemistry with 55 percent pass marks at the minimum.

Those aiming for biotechnology or biology oriented engineering courses, have to pass plus two with biology/biotechnology, physics and chemistry as subjects to be eligible for VITEEE 2025 registration.

Students must ensure that they are fulfilling all the required VITEEE 2025 registration eligibility criteria before taking up VITEEE 2025 registration to avoid rejections at a later stage.

 With a limited window for applications, interested students are encouraged to register promptly and prepare for this competitive exam.

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VITEEE 2025 Registration

VITEEE 2025 registration process is mentioned below for the sake of the students:

  1. Type the URL mentioned above in the browser and submit it to allow the website to download
  2. Once the webpage is ready, candidates can know all the information about the exam.
  3. After knowing about the exam, candidates can provide details like their name, age, email and other details and press Signup button to create an account.
  4. After creating an account, candidates can come up to the same webpage with URL ‘https://viteee.vit.ac.in/’ and press Login button to enter and commence VITEEE 2025 registration process.

VITEEE 2025 registration Link is here

VITEEE 2025 Registration Fees

VITEEE 2025 registration fee is Rs 1350, they must pay this while applying for the exam. The application form can be submitted after paying the VITEEE 2025 registration fee.

Admit card

Candidates who have completed their VITEEE 2025 registration alone can download the admit card for appearing for the exam. The process to download the admit card is mentioned below for the sake of the students:

  1. Type the URL ‘https://viteee.vit.ac.in/’ in the browser and allow the webpage to download.
  2. Once the webpage is ready, candidates have to click the link for admit card.
  3. Clicking the link will likely open another webpage.
  4. When another webpage opens, candidates can enter their application number and other information to obtain the hall ticket.
  5. Once the hall ticket is visible, candidates can download it and take a printout.
Point to remember

Candidates looking towards appearing for the exam at a test center have to download the admit card, those choosing to appear through remote proctored mode (if available) may not need to download the hall ticket, they can book the slot and appear for the test from anywhere.

Students can visit the official website to obtain information about the availability of option to take up the exam in remote proctored mode.

After VITEEE 2025 registration

Students have to appear for the exam and pass it with required qualifying marks to be eligible for participating in the counselling process.

Counselling is where the candidates can choose the course and college to study it. Selection will be done likely on the basis of performance in VITEEE, performance in qualifying exam, availability of seats, existing demand for various courses.

Those who get the seat can convey their acceptance and pay the fees and join the institution for classes.

VITEEE 2025 Registration

VIT has released the VITEEE 2025 exam pattern. More details about this are available on the official website also which is mentioned above.

For quicker glance, the exam pattern for VITEEE 2025 is mentioned below.

VITEEE for B.E/B.Tech programs will have a total of 125 questions constituting 125 marks. The no. of questions is given as Mathematics/Biology-40 questions, Physics-35 questions, Chemistry-35 questions, Aptitude-10 questions and English-5 questions.

Vellore Institute of Technology will conduct VITEEE 2025 exam for 2 hours and 30 minutes duration.

All the questions shall be multiple choice type; each correct answer shall have one mark and there is no negative marking for incorrect ones. 

Candidates who are wishing to take up science oriented courses have to attempt questions related to maths, physics and chemistry.

Those keen on biology or biotechnology oriented engineering courses have to attempt questions from biology, physics and chemistry. English and Aptitude questions are compulsory along with maths/biology, physics and chemistry.

Such candidates will not get any chance to attend the counselling process. Out of the total 125 questions, the sections include mathematics/biology (40), physics (35), chemistry (35), aptitude (10), and English (5).

The paper will be in English language. The VITEEE Exam pattern for B.Tech. can be checked from the details given below: 

MPCEA

Subject No.of Questions
Mathematics 40
Physics 35
Chemistry 35
English 5
Aptitude 10

BPCEA

Subject No.of Questions
Biology 40
Physics 35
Chemistry 35
English 5
Aptitude 10

Exam Duration : 2 Hours and 30 Minutes

Post preparation

Candidates have to appear for VITEEE 2025 and then pass it with required qualifying marks to be eligible for the next phase of the admission process.

The phase after written exam is counselling, those who have passed the written exam with required qualifying marks can take part in the counselling where candidates get to choose the college and course they wish to study.

Counselling is usually conducted in more than one round, those who get a seat in the initial rounds can pay the fees and join the classes.

Students who don’t get a seat in the first round can try in the subsequent rounds. Selection of candidates will be done on criteria like performance in the qualifying exam, performance in the written test, availability of seats in each course, demand for each course, choice of the candidates.

S.
S. Vishnu Sharma

S Vishnu Sharmaa now works with collegechalo.com in the news team. His work involves writing articles related to the education sector in India with a keen focus on higher education issues. Journalism has always been a passion for him. He has more than 10 years of enriching experience with various media organizations like Eenadu, Webdunia, News Today, Infodea. He also has a strong interest in writing about defence and railway related issues.



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