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IIT students to coach students in Maoist hit villages
Monday January 21, 2013 08:04:24 PM,
IANS
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Patna: Bihar Police
have roped in IIT students to provide free coaching to students in
Maoist-affected villages to wean them away from rebels, a police
official said Monday.
"A group of IITians will coach students for free in Maoists
affected villages to prepare them for engineering and medical
examinations and to clear Class 10 and 12 examinations," Rohtas
District Superintendent of Police Manu Maharaj said.
Maharaj said some IITians have agreed to help police to teach
students in Maoist-affected villages.
Maharaj told IANS that nearly 1,000 students in over two dozen
villages under Nauhatta block in Rohtas had enrolled for free
coaching by IITians.
About 150 km from Patna, Rohtas is considered a Moist stronghold.
He said police would provide all facilities to run the free
coaching. "In the beginning, free coaching would be given near
Nauhatta block."
Maharaj said the offer of free coaching has created a positive
atmosphere in the villages. "The response is better than expected.
Students and their parents from Maoist-affected villages have
shown interest in the free coaching," Maharaj said.
Six IIT students from IIT-Roorkee, IIT-Delhi, IIT-Kharagpur and
IIT-Kanpur, will tutor the students.
Last year, Maharaj used Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan's picture
in a poster asking poor and backward youths from rural areas not
to join the rebels and to enlist in the security forces. However,
Bachchan objected to the use of his picture without his consent.
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