93% of OIL-backed students clear JEE Mains

GUWAHATI

More than 93% of 150 underprivileged students across five centres funded by Oil India Limited (OIL) have cracked the Joint Entrance Examination (Mains), the oil exploration and production major said on Thursday (April 24, 2025).

The public sector undertaking has been running five OIL Pragyan Super 30 centres for engineering aspirants in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Rajasthan, apart from a medical entrance coaching centre for 50 students in central Assam’s Jorhat town.

These centres offer 11 months of free, fully residential coaching and academic mentoring for meritorious students from families with an annual income of less than ₹4 lakh.

Of the 150 engineering aspirants across the five centres – three in Assam, with the Guwahati centre for girls only, and one each in Arunachal Pradesh’s Itanagar and Rajasthan’s Jodhpur – 140 qualified for JEE (Advanced) to take a step closer to the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and National Institute of Technology (NIT).

“While all 30 students at the Jodhpur centre cleared JEE (Mains) with high percentile marks, about 92% of the students in the four Assam and Arunachal Pradesh centres advanced to the next stage,” Ankur Barua, the Director (Human Resources) of OIL, said.

The success rate of the 150 students across the five centres works out to a little more than 93%.

According to Ranjan Goswami, OIL’s Executive Director (Business Development), 221 students got admitted to the IITs and 420 others to the NITs since the first of the five free coaching centres was set up in Guwahati in 2010.

“Since the inception of the OIL Pragyan Super 30 project, 1,361 out of 1,482 students enrolled across the four centres in the Northeast secured admissions in the IITs, NITs, and various engineering colleges across India,” he said.

Mr Goswami said OIL spends about ₹3 lakh annually per student across its six coaching centres. This works out to ₹6 crore.