GAIL, for the last 10 years has been successfully implementing the project ‘GAIL Utkarsh’. The programme provides all expenses paid, specialized residential coaching and intensive mentoring to students from disadvantaged segments of the society in order to enable them to compete in engineering entrance examinations of eminent institutions such as Indian Institute of Technology – Joint Entrance Examination, Uttar Pradesh Technical University, etc. GAIL Utkarsh Super 100, Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh) has successfully completed 9 batches, starting from 200910. Since its inception in 2009-10, 690 students have been trained under GAIL’s patronage, of which 598 students have been selected – 125 in IITs and 473 in NITs and other engineering colleges. The project has been catering to students of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Uttarakhand representing the lowest strata of the society with nominal income of less than Rs. 2.50 lakhs per annum. These students come from families of small/marginal farmers, labourers, and small business owners etc. who do not have enough resources to afford coaching for education in the premier institutions of the country for their children.