GANDHINAGAR: The state government will set up special coaching institutes to prepare youth for competitive examinations, chief minister Vijay Rupani said this in the assembly on Wednesday.
Speaking on a discussion on coaching for students of scheduled tribes during question hour in the assembly, the CM said, “The state government will introduce a new scheme to begin coaching centres for students who aspire to get admission into institutes like IIMs and IITs,” the CM said.
He added that the government has already contacted reputed coaching centres based in Kota, Rajasthan. “The state government will open coaching centres in big cities like Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara, and Rajkot. The state government will conduct tests to admit students in these coaching centres. Our aim is to ensure that more students from Gujarat do well in competitive examinations like NEET, JEE and others, and eventually get admission in reputed institutions like IIMs and IITs,” the CM said in the assembly.
However, existing coaching classes which train students for competitive examinations, appeared to be skeptical about the idea. Requesting anonymity, the proprietor of a leading coaching institute said that teachers are paid about Rs 25 lakh annually for their services. “When the government has not been able to pay salaries of regular teachers, paying high salaries to coaching teachers will be difficult,” the proprietor pointed out.
Another coaching institute proprietor said that there has been a saturation of institutes in Kota, and they have been branching out in other parts of the country of late. “Curriculum and syllabus of all competitive exams for which the government aims to prepare youth are already being taught in private institutes,” the proprietor said.