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Vinod Kumar Bansal is an Indian businessman, founder of Bansal Classes Private Limited, a test preparation company.
Biography
Vinod Kumar Bansal was born in Jhansi India on October 26, 1946. He graduated in mechanical engineering at the Banaras Hindu University in 1971. Post graduation, he got married and moved to Kota, Rajasthan India 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, he met with G. D. Agrawal of Mumbai, who inspired him to start coaching students for IIT JEE, the entrance test for the Indian Institutes of Technology. Subsequently, he left his engineering job and started training students, initially at his dining-room table. A few of his students managed to pass the IIT JEE, and in 1991, he founded Bansal Classes.
Now, V.K Bansal is in Kota, Rajasthan, because of being paralyzed, he no longer takes regular classes.