I come from the Rajender Nagar area of Delhi where the recent tragedy took place.
I enrolled for UPSC Coaching with Raus IAS last year, even though the coaching center was just a few minutes from my house, I still chose to go for online coaching.
The reason was, that whenever I walked by those lanes of the ORN area, I could sense the stress, the pressure, and the low vibrations of that area, those claustrophobic lanes and cutthroat competition, mirroring the exploitative nature of the coaching industry.
The problem is over-glorification -
1. The movies and series that are sponsored by the coaching institutes themselves.
2. The overly motivating reels and videos by the UPSC Patronts.
In fact, the students who go to study amidst the water clogging and flooding situation is also because they take it as an action of dedication.
The coaching industry has been operating with two major selling points - Fear and Motivation.
Based on my candid conversations with some of the toppers, they never gave credit to any coaching for their success.
Our nation's finest talent as we call it the demographic dividend is getting exploited by the hands of these extremely rich and unbothered coaching mafias, this brings a lot of questions to change the way we have been over-glorifying the exam, the coaching businesses, and a particular overburdened area from which they are operating.
(Few Days Before, 3 IAS aspirants died after flooding at coaching institute's basemen. Widespread student protests over negligenc. Only 67 of 583 Delhi coaching centres have fire safety certificates)
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