Hyderabad:

Hyderabad stood second in the country this year for sending the most number of students to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). The highest number of students who got into the prestigious institutions came from Jaipur.

This year as many as 2,135 students from the city got selected for IITs as against 2,680 students from Jaipur. Delhi stood third at 2,050 students while only 389 students from Chennai (14th place) made the cut.

Better training facilities offered by corporate colleges and coaching centres in the city that especially train applicants to crack national-level competitive exams is said to be the reason for this flood into the IITs.

Prominent coaching institute groups in AP such as Sri Chaitanya, Narayana, FIITJEE, Delta, Ramaiah etc. have been bagging hundreds of seats in IITs for the last four-five years.
While there are approximately, 9,500 seats in 15 IITs, about 2,375 seats, amounting to 25 per cent, were secured by students from the state alone this year.

Hyderabad also holds the distinction of securing All-India first ranks for two years in a row (the last two years) and of bagging maximum ranks in the top-10 for the past three years.

In the process, the city has overtaken Kota in Rajasthan, which was considered the national hub for  coaching for engineering and medical competitive exams.

“The success of our students in IITs is due to increased awareness among parents. They motivate their children to get seats in ins-titutions of national repute, be it engineering, medical or any other course, right from Class VIII. Five years ago, this was not the case.

source: http://www.DeccanChronicle.com / Home> News> Current Affairs / DC / by L. Venkat Ram Reddy / December 24th, 2012