Commercialised Nature of the Coaching Industry is Making Students Pay the Price
Goyam Pitalia | 10 September 2024 | The Wire
With the dream of joining the prestigious higher education institutions in the country, lakhs of student flock to coaching centres to prepare for various “high-stakes” exams. With the increasing competition and number of entrance exams, coaching institutions are mushrooming nationwide.
Coaching institutions have thus become highly commercialised, and the coaching industry’s market revenue currently stands at a whopping Rs. 60,000 crores. However, everything is not hunky-dory. Kota in Rajasthan, known as the coaching hub of the country, has alone witnessed 27 suicides among students in 2023. This has been a cause for alarm amongst the stakeholders, including the government…