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Vinod Kumar Bansal

Vinod Kumar Bansal or VK Bansal (26 October 1949 – 3 May 2021) was an Indian educationist and the founder of the Bansal Classes in Kota, Rajasthan. He made Kota famous throughout India for IIT-JEE entrance exam preparation.

VK Bansal was born on 26 October 1949, in the Jhansi district of the state of Uttar Pradesh. His father was a government employee and his mother was a homemaker.

He went to the Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University. After completing his education, he worked in a chemical company, J. K. Synthetics, in Kota.

In 1974, Vinod Kumar Bansal was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy, which left him with complete paralysis and physical impairment, which was predicted to shorten his lifespan. In 1983, due to the financial crisis in Kota, J. K. Synthetics closed down. The same year, he met G. D. Agrawal of Mumbai, who suggested he start coaching students for the IIT-JEE, i.e., the undergraduate entrance test for the Indian Institutes of Technology. He started coaching for the IIT-JEE, starting with 8 students at his dining table.^[3] After a few of his students managed to clear the JEE in 1991, he founded Bansal Classes.

Pioneer of Best Entrance Examination Coaching in India

Kota has since emerged as the principal coaching center in India, with nearly 150,000 students from across India enrolling in the 40 coaching institutes in Kota. In 2017, 39,000 of these students cleared the Joint Entrance Examination (Main) and at least 48 of them were in the top 100.

The Success Ratio of Bansal Classes was having a continuous upward trend and majority of students secured their Ranks in Top 100, soon the students from Bansal Classes started producing the Ranks in single digit and the Star came in the year 2000 when Bansal Classes produced the AIR-1 from its classroom contact program, and this didn’t stop here. The story continued and history repeated itself in the year 2002, 2007 and 2008 as well. Bansal Classes has produced more than 16000 IITians from its classroom contact program which is tagged as highest in this segment.