IITian raises voice against fake ad of Coaching Institutes in Patna

Patna: Once the results of the competitive examinations are declared every year, one just cannot miss the king size advertisements of coaching classes screaming out the names of their successful students in newspapers. But in reality, many of those candidates never visited the institutes going ga ga about them.

Yet, the owners of the training cradles not only dare to claim them as their students but also publish their names and photographs to net more unsuspecting students. The institutes even try to bribe the candidates so that they could use their name.

Harsh Beria, who ranked 4,991st in the IIT-JEE this year, learnt this the hard way and spoke out against Paradise Institute with support of his friends and Students’ Oxygen Movement.

Harsh, a St Michael’s High School passout, said at a news meet today: “I was shocked to see my name along with the registration number and rank in the newspapers on May 26, the day after the IIT-JEE results were declared. But the picture was of someone else.”

He added: “This is absolutely wrong. If we ignore such a thing, our juniors would have to pay for our ignorance. Students would keep falling prey to these coaching institutes and also keep wasting money and time. The coaching institute must apologise for its deed, else I will approach the police.”

When The Telegraph called up the director of Paradise Institute, Kumar Ajit, he said the fact that Harsh levelled the charge 40 days after the declaration of the IIT-JEE results was suspicious.

“Rival coaching institutes must be behind all this to malign the reputation of my coaching institute. Besides, first I need to check our records to find out the veracity of Harsh’s allegation.”

On the late reaction against the institute, Harsh said: “I had been too busy with counselling and admission all these days.”

At the news meet, Viraat Tiwari and Rishabh Srivastava, other IIT-JEE candidates and also Harsh’s friends, came up to support the cause.

Viraat said: “We have come up to support Harsh’s cause and totally agree with whatever he is saying. We will strongly fight against this.”

Rishabh said: “On seeing the newspapers, I felt that my friend, Harsh, had undergone a plastic surgery or taken some crash course in the last few days which I did not know of. We are there to support him.”

Condemning the alleged act, Binod Singh, the convener of Students’ Oxygen Movement, said: “It’s a heinous crime which should not have been committed. Students are always the soft target and the coaching institute has taken advantage of this.”

Singh said if coaching institutes can do this with one or two students, one could not be sure of the authenticity of the rest.

He said: “If the coaching institute does not apologise for its deed, then we would meet the secretary of the human resource development department and go to the police.”