Delhi Coaching Centre Deaths: The Dark Side of Dreaming ‘IAS’
Samarpan Vashishtha | 30 July 2024 | News18
On July 29, 2024, while allowing the discussion under Rule 176 on the death of three UPSC aspirants in a coaching centre in Old Rajendra Nagar, New Delhi area, Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar remarked, “I find that youth demographic dividend of the country has to be nurtured, I further find that coaching has become virtually commerce.” He further added, “In a country where opportunities are getting enlarged, this silo is turning out to be a problem. They are becoming no less than a gas chamber.”
Maybe this is the only time in the last decade that a student movement of this scale has erupted in Delhi since the JNU incident of the year 2016. The protests might seem sudden but discontent has been simmering for a long time waiting for a critical point to vent and erupt. Huge uproar and protests by aspirants are neither wrong nor unwarranted because the underbelly of the coaching industry has been flourishing without checks and balances and there needs to be some accountability…