In Kadus, a sleepy village in Maharashtra's Rajgurunagar town, a handpicked batch of 70 students trained for the past one year for the IIT joint entrance examination (JEE) has achieved a 100% success rate with all of them clearing the mains.
So have 149 students trained at Bundi in Rajasthan (50) and Kottayam (99).
Drawn from as far as Kargil in Jammu & Kashmir and Kerala, the students have one thing in common -all come from an extremely poor background and were trained, for free, by an organisation called Dakshana Foundation, which has been running JEE coaching batches in seven Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas (JNVs) since 2009.
Read more of this, including information of a few students as to from what background them have come, in a report by Ardhra Nair of Times Group.
