A 25-year-old UPSC aspirant in Delhi’s Mukherjee Nagar is exposing the ugly truth of the predatory coaching ecosystem on X. He’s giving students a reality check and making institutes nervous.
Change is sweeping through Mukherjee Nagar as coaching institutes and aspirants begin shift to Noida after safety crackdown, leaving behind bare rooms, quiet streets, a sense of loss.
Students & business owners are worried over changes to follow now. Drishti is committed to providing a secure & well-equipped learning environment at Noida, says its deputy CEO.
Delhi minister Atishi says 5-member committee will oversee drafting of law to regulate coaching centres including infra, fees, teachers’ eligibility and other factors.
Just a week ago, an aspirant who was about to write the mains exam died from electrocution. And at least three fire incidents have been reported since last year in Mukherjee Nagar and Old Rajinder Nagar.
Aspirants have come and gone but Pushpendra Shrivastava remains confined in his one-room flat in Delhi's Mukherjee Nagar. His next test is the Madhya Pradesh Public Service Commission interview.
With a coaching institute in every gully of Mukherjee Nagar and Karol Bagh, Delhi is becoming saturated. And now institutes want to build Mukherjee Nagars in every state capital.
The hard logic of hard labour translating into success is hammered into the students every day, no matter how superficial that ideal might be in today’s world.
After dominating India’s crude imports since 2023, Russian supplies slowed amid US sanctions, but a 30-day ‘waiver’ amid West Asia tensions could now push flows back towards 2 mbpd.
Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.
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