Eklavya Model Residential Schools The objective of Eklavya Model Residential School is to provide quality middle and high school education to scheduled Tribe students in remote areas. These schools provide access to the best opportunities in education to tribal students at par with modern residential schools. Attention is given on the comprehensive, physical, mental and social development of students. These schools thus transform socially and educationally backward poor tribal children to empowered and self assured youth equipped to find better opportunities and better standard of life for themselves and the society. In Tamil Nadu, Seven Eklavya Model Residential School are functioning.