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Eklavya Model Residential Schools recorded a 93.62 per cent pass rate in Class X and 87.82 per cent in Class XII in the academic year 2025-26.
173 EMRSs achieved a 100 per cent pass rate in Class X and 92 in Class XII.
EMRS students qualified 408 in NEET, 346 in JEE Main, 41 in JEE Advanced, 9 in NIFT and 1 in CLAT during 2025-26.
9,111 teaching and non-teaching staff were recruited through ESSE-2023, with ESSE-2025 conducted for a further 7,267 posts.
Medha AI, an AI-enabled teaching support platform, has been introduced across all functional EMRSs to help teachers build lesson plans, assessments and question banks.
Assist EMRS teachers in preparing lesson plans, presentations, assessments, question banks and other teaching-learning resources.
Key: An AI-enabled teaching support platform introduced across all functional EMRSs, with capacity-building programmes to train teachers in its use.
Deliver curriculum-based learning and competitive-exam content to EMRS students.
Key: A dedicated DTH television channel covering Classes 9 to 12, ensuring access where connectivity is weak.
Provide focused mentoring and high-quality coaching to meritorious EMRS students preparing for IIT-JEE and NEET.
Key: Eight are operational.
Engineering and NEET Admission Bridge Accelerated Learning Engagement - structured online academic support and coaching for IIT-JEE and NEET aspirants.
Key: Launched in 2025.
Improve employability of Class XII pass students through vocational routes.
Key: A three-year diploma integrating classroom instruction with industrial training.
Promote nutrition awareness, healthy eating habits and experiential learning.
Key: Fifty established across EMRSs by the Ministry of Ayush.
Tribal habitations are typically small, dispersed and remote, which makes conventional day schooling fail in a specific way: a village may have too few children of a given age to justify a full secondary school with subject teachers and laboratories, and the nearest such school may be too far to reach daily. The residential model answers that by pooling students across a wide catchment into one fully equipped campus, so that quality does not have to be replicated in every hamlet. That is why the EMRS specification is stated in physical terms - 15 acres, 480 students, Classes VI to XII, separate hostels, science and computer laboratories, staff quarters - because the model only works if the campus is genuinely self-contained and staff live on site. It also explains why staffing is the binding constraint and why recruitment happens through a dedicated national examination, the ESSE, rather than State cadres: a residential school in a remote block needs its full complement of subject teachers or the model collapses back into what it replaced.
Simple Analogy: It is the difference between putting a small clinic in every village and running one properly equipped hospital that serves them all.
GS Paper 2 > Governance: Issues Relating to Development and Management of Social Sector - Education; Welfare Schemes for Scheduled Tribes
General Awareness > Government Schemes and Education
General Awareness > Current Affairs
Tribal welfare and education schemes appear regularly in UPSC GS-2 and in SSC general awareness.
Eklavya Model Residential School - residential schools for Scheduled Tribe students, Classes VI to XII, run by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs.
Eklavya Schools Staff Selection Examination - the national recruitment examination for EMRS teaching and non-teaching staff.
AI-enabled teaching support platform deployed across all functional EMRSs to help teachers build lesson plans, assessments and question banks.
Engineering and NEET Admission Bridge Accelerated Learning Engagement, launched 2025, providing online coaching for IIT-JEE and NEET aspirants.
A three-year diploma for Class XII pass students combining classroom instruction with industrial training.