69 crack JEE in Chhattisgarh’s Kanker district, with crucial help from admin

Ashish Kumeti, director and founder of Eklavya, a private coaching institute that got the contract for coaching the students, said: “We focused on their weak points and provided them test sets.”

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District Collector Priyanka Shukla said, "I visited many government schools after taking charge last July and found that there is a lot of potential among students; we only needed to give them a direction.”

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With 69 students, including 62 from the tribal community, from Chhattisgarh’s Kanker district having cleared the JEE Main (second session), in the results announced on Saturday, the district administration, which played a key role in helping the students achieve this feat, will now help them prepare for JEE Advance exams to qualify for IIT.

Jagruti Komre, from the tribal community, topped the district with 90.46 percentile. Gayatri Watti, 16, also from the Adivasi community, who scored 75.386 and wants to become an electrical engineer in a government department, told The Sunday Express: “My teachers inspired me to sit for JEE. The government provided free coaching classes, paid for my hostel stay and food when I came to Kanker for 10 days for preparations, and took care of all paperwork (related to the entrance exam).”

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The administration hired an educational institute to impart free coaching. “We coached students throughout the year and ensured that all students — around 340 of them, including 300 from tribal communities — in the Math stream in HSC applied for JEE. We conducted a 10-day residential coaching camp close to the examination and bore the examination fee,” District Education Officer Bhuwan Jain said.

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District Collector Priyanka Shukla said, “I visited many government schools after taking charge last July and found that there is a lot of potential among students; we only needed to give them a direction.”

Shukla said, “In July itself, we launched a programme called Hamar Lakshya (Our Goal), where experts conducted orientation programmes for all school teachers to orient them on preparations for various professional examinations.”

Ashish Kumeti, director and founder of Eklavya, a private coaching institute that got the contract for coaching the students, said: “We focused on their weak points and provided them test sets.”

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