state sponsored coaching for entrance exams

It has been more than one week since I have joined SERP. Dude, it’s high time that I have fast tracked to some real work. Good bye to naivety and deep hug to processes and procedures. What I am afraid is “I am no longer outside the box”, I have been sucked into the closer space of black hole of system where my thoughts will be forced to oscillate in a limited space. Oh.. fuck, stop the crap..nyway I have never shown ny OOTB character. May be it’s high time I did.
Last week I visited a few corporate junior colleges where DRDA is sponsoring students from underprivileged families to undergo quality coaching for the preparation of IIT and other entrance examinations. Senthil’s moot point was, “is government promoting the private coaching centres ?” (which they should not do ?)
Before going further let us look at what are these coaching centres. These are recognised by the AP govt as “junior colleges” offering XI and XII regular classes along with special training for facing national level entrance examinations. They collect fees of approximately Rs. 60,000 per year from a student including his academic and lodging facilities. Each campus is having approximately 1500+ residential students. I wonder if they are having library, lab and other facilities for this many students.
Now to answer Senthil’s question, I believe in the present flawed system of entrance examinations only the students who can access special coaching are moving ahead. As long as this is the reality we cannot turn a blind eye to the need of coaching for students from less privileged households. Let’s draw a parallel between the special coaching sessions being given for deserving students by the various state governments for civil service, banks for officer exams among many. I asked the students whether they would have been able to attend such a coaching institute without government support. None of them but one would have attended such an institute.
There are other issues as well
1. All the students of ST category were from one particular community called “Lambadi”
2. The coaching institute treats the students as the lowest ranking guys suitable for less than average quality coaching. They have a separate DRDA section !. This might be different in different campuses.