PUNE: In the sleepy Kadus village in Rajgurunagar town, 45 km from here, a handpicked batch of 70 students swotted for the past one year before giving the JEE Mains, one of the toughest exams to crack at the undergraduate level in the country. The result was stupendous, with all of them clearing the examination.
Drawn from as far as Kargil in Kashmir and Kottayam in Kerala, all the students come from poor background and are trained free by Dakshana Foundation, which has been running JEE coaching batches in seven Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas (JNVs) in the country since 2009. Apart from the Dakshana Valley centre in Rajgurunagar, two other centres at Bundi in Rajasthan (50 students) and Kottayam (99) also had cent percent results.
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