Delhi's own "Super 30"
Quest has declared the formation of Delhi's own "Super 30" on the lines of the concept launched in Bihar by IPS officer Abhayanand and Anand Kumar. This is an effort to provide equal opportunity to students of weaker economic sections, who cannot afford the prohibitively expensive courses offered by various coaching centers. The Super 30 batch will be open only to kids of government schools who have a monthly household income of less than Rs.3000.
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Giving back to the Alma-Mater (For IIT/IIM)
Quest, an educational institute run by IIT/IIM graduates has found a novel way to help IIT/IIM graduates contribute to their Alma-Mater. According to this scheme, meant for all the alumni of IITs and IIMs, Quest will donate 5% of the course fees to the alma-mater of the alumni, whenever he refers a student to a program. This gives a new dimension to corporate social responsibility. It is a win-win situation for all concerned. Praveen Tyagi, Director (Quest) believes that every alumnus wants to donate money back to the alma mater but never gets around to doing it. In this manner, the alumni will get the satisfaction of contributing to the alma-mater while taking care of an important need of educating a child. Coaching has become a norm for anybody wanting to crack IITJEE. What is even better is that the contribution will be made by Quest on behalf of the alumni out of the revenue it receives.

World over the alumni body contributes largely to the development of the Institutes. In India, IITs have started collecting money; most of the IIMs still do not have a proper system of collecting money from its ex-students. These giants of Indian education have to depend on the government for funds. It would be difficult to establish world class research institutions without the active charitable involvement of the alumni. It may be noted that industry captains are more than willing to contribute to the cause of education. Indian School of Business (ISB) at Hyderabad was a result of donations from the Industry.

With over 50000 extremely successful alumni, IITs and IIMs can become the most powerful education brands in the world. A few creative instruments like the one devised by Quest will make the difference. The institutes covered under the program are:

IITs (Roorkee, Delhi, Bombay, Chennai, Kharagpur, Kanpur and Guwahati), IT-BHU Varanasi

IIMs (Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta, Indore, Kozhikode)

At a philosophical level, Praveen believes that this is a way for Quest to pay back to the IITs. After all the whole coaching sector exists because of IITs only. Praveen also believes that there is a need to mend the relationship between good Coaching Centers and the IITs. "After all Coaching Centers play the role of being marketing agents for the IITs", he says. He also believes that such responsible actions will help people in identifying good educational institutions over purely commercial establishments.