KHADOOR SAHIB, Punjab: The Gyan Sewa Trust has organizing a 25- day Crash Course at Khadoor Sahib, where the faculty from Delhi is staying continuously for 25 days and train rural students for entrance examinations of professional courses like medical, engineering, architecture, biotechnology and other university courses.

In all 36 students from Banga, Rahon, Nawan Shehar, Talewal, Raikot and Khadoor Sahib areas have been selected for this Crash Course. Some of these students are from very poor families. Among them, one girl is a daughter of a driver, one of plumber, one of laborer, one of a mechanic, one boy, son of a mechanic, one of clerk and three boys sons of constables and other students are children of small farmers. These students would have never dreamt of getting such high level coaching and education.

This program ends on May 12. At the inauguration of this program, former Chairman of Union Public Service Commission, SJS Chhatwal, had gone to Khadoor Sahib along with Dr TS Klair, an eminent Cardiologist of international repute from Escorts Hospital, Delhi. Dr Klair motivated the students by telling his own story that he used to walk down four kilometers to his school in his village up to middle class and for high school he used to cycle 15 kilometers.

Dr Klair belongs to a small village, Amargarh, near Samrala and studying in these conditions, he reached at the top of his profession by sheer hard work. HS Phoolka, Chairman of the Trust, stated that these entrance examinations to professional courses are coaching based and the rural students, who do not have access to specialized coaching lag behind not because of lack of talent, but because of non-access to specialized coaching.

This amounts to great injustice to the rural students. Phoolka, a Senior Advocate and a Human Rights Activist, stated that in the modern context of human rights, depriving the students of equal resources of education and then making them compete with those students, to whom these resources are available, amounts to gross violation of human rights.

He further asserted that the main motive of the Trust is to remove this disparity and provide rural students with equal opportunities and access to educational resources, as are available to their counter parts in big cities.