New Delhi: A day after edtech startup Physics Wallah announced its MoU with the government to provide quality education to SC and OBC aspirants, students from the General category are calling the move discriminatory towards EWS and the general category.
“Why are they providing the coaching classes to specific categories of students? There are students in the General categories who really can’t afford coaching classes, there are EWS category students who are needy people, but nothing is available for them,” said Vivek Mishra, UPSC aspirant studying in Karol Bagh.
Under this MoU, Physics Wallah Foundation will provide free online coaching to 5,000 aspirants every year belonging to the Scheduled Castes, Other Backward Classes and beneficiaries of the PM CARES for Children Scheme from all over India.
“The initiative aims to support candidates preparing for competitive examinations such as the Civil Services Examination, Staff Selection Commission Examination and Banking Examinations. No such Memorandum of Understanding has been signed by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs with any organisation in respect of Scheduled Tribe students,” said the government press release.
“The selection of beneficiaries is merit-based and is carried out through a dedicated online portal,” the press release added.
“The government says this is about inclusion, but exclusion is also happening. There are many general category students whose families earn very little but don’t get any institutional support. Coaching today costs lakhs, how are they expected to compete?” said Manoj Singh, an EWS category student studying in Mukherjee Nagar and preparing for SSC.
Another student said that the field is not equal.
“Competitive exams are already not equal for us because of coaching access. Schemes like this widen that gap further for those who don’t fall in reserved categories but still lack resources,” said Shweta Joshi, an SSC aspirant.
Apart from this, many state governments and communities, such as Muslims, Jains and Aggarwals, have provided free UPSC coaching services for aspirants from their own community. Almost every state government, including Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, and West Bengal, runs coaching classes in association with coaching institutes.
(Edited by Theres Sudeep)
5000 count among crores is like oont ke muh me zeera means nothing, ye bhi sarkar se paisa kamane ka jarya hai.
Crores of rupees earned via IPO and mission is accomplished. Now it’s time to appeasement.
In India nothing should be free, the moment u use the word free, it changes the mindset of Indian people. They take due advantage of it. So take nominal fees of Rs.100 per student per month, then only students will understand the value of it.
This” oh I am so poor please give me alms” bullshit needs to stop. SSC online courses are anyways under 10000, less than monthly rent in mukherjee nagar
I want to ask all these cribbers what they would do if Physicswallah as an organization did not exist.
Stop begging and living off some organizations/ corporates good heartedness…. do some hard work instead of always moving around with begging bowls. Lazy bloody student and parent lot.
Exactly. Why do people think that general category is overall well off compared to other categories ?
Come on guys. Give financial support to people based on how poor they are. We need to add a creamy layer to the SC/ST category. I still feel cheated that a girl in my class who came in a Mercedes was considered a SC. And let me tell you no one gives a damn about caste when you are in urban middle class area.
THE SC/ST community which are actually poor get screwed over by these rich elites who claim to have SC/ST background(yes they are elites) we can never maximize our chances for our citizens because of stupid woke politics.
Also stop chasing government jobs. Get a private job. People waste their lives chasing government job.
It is shameful that in this day and age of cheap internet , people are being discriminated against based on archaic caste lines. Everybody knows that money is the real discriminating factor to quality education and not historical atrocities like who was not allowed to drink from the community well in a village. I have friends from so called reserved categories whose both parents work in government jobs yet theur wards get benefits such a subsidised education and even free coaching. While, there is a general category friend who runs his small grocery shop barely meeting ends wearing the same shirt for months together because he spends all of his money on his son and daughters schooling. Is modern India so blind to this apathy ? We are perpetuating deep fissures in society rather than solving anything.