Vinod Kumar Bansal


Vinod Kumar Bansal is an Indian educationist and founder of BANSAL CLASSES PVT LIMITED at Kota, a test preparation company.

Biography

Vinod Kumar Bansal was born in Jhansi, India on 26 October 1946. He graduated in mechanical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University. After graduation, he got married and moved to Kota, Rajasthan as an engineer at JK Synthetics, a chemicals company.
In 1974, Vinod was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy, which left him physically impaired, and was predicted to shorten his lifespan. In 1983, JK Synthetics closed down. In 1983, he met G.D. Agrawal of Mumbai, who suggested him to start coaching students for IIT JEE, the entrance test for the Indian Institutes of Technology. Subsequently, he started teaching students, initially with 8 students at his dining-room table. A few of his students managed to clear the IIT JEE, and in 1991, he founded Bansal Classes.
Kota has since then emerged as the coaching center in India with nearly 150,000 students from across India enrol in the 40 coaching institutes in Kota. In 2017, 39,000 of their students cleared the Joint Entrance Examination and at least 48 of them were in top 100.