Atal Residential School: Entrance exam for admissionon on June 11, teaching to begin in July 2023

Entrance exam for  Atal Residential School in Lucknow on June 11 for registered construction workers and pandemic orphans. Teaching begins July .

Teaching will commence at the Atal Residential School, Lucknow, from July .

The entrance examination will be held on June 11 2023 in Lucknow, Rae Bareli, Unnao, Hardoi, Sitapur and Lakhimpur Kheri, for registered construction workers and children orphaned by the pandemic, said deputy labor commissioner, Lucknow Zone, Rakesh Dwivedi.

The test will be conducted on the campuses of Government Inter Colleges of the state. Candidates may collect their admit card from the office of assistant labour commissioner of their district.

Principal Sukhvir Singh said that a little over 1,000 applications have been received and of these 800 were found eligible. From these, 80 students (40 boys and 40 girls) will be selected for admission to Class 6.

 There will be 80 objective-type questions in the entrance test, out of which 40 questions will be of mental ability, 20 on mathematics and 20 questions on language.

Dwivedi said that Atal Residential School has come up in Sithoulikalan, Mohanlalganj, Lucknow and it will be equipped with all facilities on the lines of Navodaya Vidyalaya. He said that at the Atal Residential School, students from Classes 6 to 12 will be provided free education as well as hostels for their living, food, a laboratory and a library with modern facilities as well as sports facilities.

Spread over 17 acres and equipped with all essential facilities, the Lucknow-based Atal Residential School – an ambitious and much-awaited scheme of the Uttar Pradesh government – has been constructed at a cost of 70 crore. It will operate Classes from 6 to 12.