‘ChaiNa’ splits over JEE ranks
A battle between two major corporate colleges groups, Narayana and Sri Chaitanya, over which group had produced the most Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) high rankers has led to an abrupt abolition of their joint-venture project, ChaiNa, with both groups threatening legal action against each other.
The groups, arch rivals since the 1990s, joined hands in 2012 by setting up ChaiNa, to train students for Eamcet, IITs and other national-level engineering and medical entrance exams.
However, following the recent announcement of JEE Main results, a split between the groups became apparent as the Sri Chaitanya group alleged that the Narayana Group had misled parents by claiming the top-scoring students in the ChiNA batch were theirs, and announced that their tieup with Narayana no longer exists. However, the Narayana Group insists ChaiNa will exist until 2019, and it has every right to claim the ranks secured by this batch until then.
Sri Chaitanya chairman B.S. Rao and academic director Sushma have accused Narayana of claiming the top ranks as theirs, and said Bhogi Suraj Krishna, this year's JEE Main topper, is a Sri Chaitanya student sent to the ChaiNa batch.
Following the announcement of JEE Main results, a split between Narayana and Sri Chaitanya became apparent as the Chaitanya group alleged that the Narayana had misled parents by claiming the topscoring students in the ChiNA batch were theirs.
A battle between two major corporate colleges groups, Narayana and Sri Chaitanya, over which group had produced the most Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) high rankers has led to an abrupt abolition of their joint-venture project, ChaiNa, with both groups threatening legal action against each other.
Four of the top five national rankers are from Sri Chaitanya, though Narayana is claiming the rank holders from even medical stream are their students despite the fact that the collaboration is over, they said.
Narayana group directors Dr Sindhura and Ms Shravani have termed Sri Chaitanya’s accusations as “silly and baseless”.
Dr Sidhura said the Narayana group has undisputed right to publicise the results as the ChaiNa batch is run according to academic schedules based on Narayana’s famous CoSpark programmes. She pointed out that even before the formation of ChaiNa, Narayana students were top rankers in national-level competitive exams.
Sri Chaintanya group founder B.S. Rao has also alleged that the Narayana group is misleading parents, asking them to admit their wards into its institutions and promising to send them to ChaiNa. “We want to make it clear that there will no combined batch of both institutions,” he said.
“There is only one combined batch that will pass next year and from this year, we are going our separate ways,” Sushma said.
“Holders of ranks 1,2,4,5 and 7 are from our institutes. They studied here or went through us to the Sharvaani batch. But Narayana is claiming these students as its own.”
Sri Chaintanya founder B.S. Rao said that the Narayana group is misleading parents, asking them to admit wards into its institutions and promising to send them to ChaiNa.