Coaching institutes mushroom in Jammu
Call 8585951111IT MAY well be a silent industry of Rs. 100 crore annual turnover in the winter capital city of Jammu and Kashmir but Rs 12 to 15 crore is precisely what some two dozen odd coaching institutions are up to make in the early summer this year as around 8000 students are running between places to secure a seats in professional colleges.
Once the 10+2 examinations are over, thousands of students from across the Jammu region rush into the winter capital city to get the 
capsule coaching for the upcoming entrance examinations for various professional examinations conducted annually by the Board of Professional Studies.
The entrance examination this year is due in the month of July and the coaching institutes in Jammu are already filled beyond their capacities. Pick up any leading newspaper in the morning and the last page is full with notices and advertisements of coaching centers promising students the easiest way to professional colleges.
There is a wide range of institutes and a much wider approach to coaching. Some coaching centers have a class of 80 to 120 students huddled together in a hall for a 45 minute lecture and some have more personalized coaching patterns involving 10 to 15 students.
Every year, around 14,000 to 16,000 students appear for the entrance examinations and roughly more than half of the total students belong to Jammu region. Since there are no proper coaching facilities or institutes in other districts, over 90 per cent of the students from across the region rush to Jammu for coaching.
While 2000 to 3000 students are drawn from Jammu city itself, nearly 5000 students pour in from different parts of the Jammu region for coaching immediately after the higher secondary school examinations.
While around two dozen coaching centers and over 50 prominent individual teachers make good of this season, the coaching months also bring economic spin-offs for locals as students coming from other parts of the region move into the city either as paying guests or take rooms on rent. Bakshi Nagar, Subhash Nagar and Rehari areas are the most favourite housing destinations for these students.
Not long ago, the students used to prepare at their own or take tuitions in small groups but, of late, the mushrooming of coaching centers has become a perilous fashion for both students and their parents as parents classify these institutions of coaching by their higher costs which is becoming trend.
Though all the institutions pursue similar syllabuses of similar subjects, the costs at all institutions are different, that too in the ascending order. This certainly is a cause of concern for parents and authorities.
However, a number of coaching centres to provide coaching for entrance examinations to various professional courses have already started working here on a large scale.
The parents have been complaining that these are only “business establishments, earning money in the name of imparting coaching”, while the instructors at the centers do not devote themselves to teaching in the government educational institutions.
Similarly private schools have cropped up here even as the government schools continue to suffer on account of lack of attention from the concerned authorities.
Among the leading coaching institutes in Jammu include ASL, SR College, SN Dasgupta College, National College, Sachdeva New PT College, Career Point Kota, Mastermind Classes, Apex, Apexel, JKIETER etc.
While ASL has on its rolls over 500 students and its fee is Rs. 15000 for the syllabus, the fee structure of SN Dasgupta and Sachdeva is almost of the same order but the number of students on their rolls is around 200 each.
Some institutes are charging as much as Rs. 25000 for the syllabus while some smaller coaching centers with a committed limited number of intake charge even upto Rs. 50000 for three to four months of coaching.
Source: http://www.merinews.com
Date: 24th March, 2010
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