The CCPA issued 20 notices earlier and has been fining the coaching centres for the last 4 years. By November 2024, cumulative fines exceeded Rs 54 lakh on 18 institutes.
The Pratap Nagar Coaching Hub is orderly, clean, spacious, and safe but coaching institutes seem reluctant to leave their cramped, hazardous setups. For students it’s a promised land.
An analysis of NEET 2024 results by IIT Madras showed an upward trend in number of top scorers from the heavily frequented coaching hubs of the country, compared to last year.
For families, many of whom take loans to pay the fees, the Act is a welcome and much-needed move in a sector plagued with malpractice, fly-by-night coaching centres, and rising student suicides.
After getting penalty notices for false advertisements, some coaching institutes have gone to court. The Central Consumer Protection Authority is going to fight them.
From Gujarat to West Bengal and Kerala to Uttar Pradesh, state-run UPSC coaching centres are now part of the Rs 3,000 crore industry in India. But they don’t market themselves overtly.
Plutus IAS, Yojna IAS, TheHinduZone.com, and Kautilya IAS are among the best institutes offering IAS coaching and career guidance through online platforms.
Delhi govt is organising interactions for students with serving officials, while UP has launched a scheme where IAS & IPS officers will coach aspirants.
The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.
IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.
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