STATE GOVERNMENTS ARE GETTING INTO UPSC COACHING GAME- NOT FOR BUSINESSES
In India, the private UPSC coaching sector is believed to be worth Rs 3,000 crore, and the high costs discourage less fortunate students from applying for the coveted UPSC position. A few of the state and local governments operate their own UPSC coaching facilities and they do it not as a means of making money but rather as a means of diversifying the applicant pool.
In India, the private UPSC coaching sector is believed to be worth Rs 3,000 crore, and the high costs discourage less fortunate students from applying for the coveted UPSC position. Today, an increasing number of state governments are attempting to influence it.
A few of the state and local governments that operate their own UPSC coaching facilities are West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, and Delhi. They do it not as a means of making money but rather as a means of diversifying the applicant pool. Free lectures, study materials, and instruction from serving IAS officials all benefit students. And it appears to be effective.
Here's a short story about a student from a piece of news; Diksha Singh, age 20, must travel a distance of two to three kilometers from her home in Rampur Bangar, Jewar, to the bus stop that will take her to the Noida UPSC coaching facility, which was established as part of the Mukhyamantri Abhyuday Yojana, which was introduced by the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh in February 2020.
"Farmer is my father. Diksha, a BCom student at Delhi University's Institute of Open Learning, stated, "Our family cannot afford private coaching for UPSC. Since August, Diksha has been attending sessions at the center. She is using the time saved by DU's distant learning option to study for the UPSC and get into the prestigious Indian Civil Services.
More than ten Indian states already operate low-cost UPSC coaching facilities or provide merit-based scholarships to the disadvantaged.
States like Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Gujarat, Rajasthan, and West Bengal have recently adopted the trend, which was started by Maharashtra in 1976 and by Kerala in 1989.
In May 2022, UP inaugurated two centers with 500 students each - one at Greater Noida's Gautam Buddha University and the other at Noida's IIMT. The students have not yet taken the UPSC (Prelims), but 40 of them passed the test administered by the Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission last year.
The thousands of young men and women who aspire to be IAS officers are sold the faces of successful students by private coaching institutions each year. These "success tales" are flaunted on large billboards that line the streets of Karol Bagh and Mukherjee Nagar in Delhi.
Government-run coaching institutes do not blatantly advertise themselves, but they want to be included in this story. Simply said, they haven't joined the PR and advertising bandwagon just yet.
Students would have access to serving cops, according to the UP government. According to a story in The Times of India, this project claims to have more than 500 IAS, 450 IPS, and 300 IFS officials in addition to topic specialists.
These institutions are giving the enormous and expensive private UPSC tutoring sector, which has dominated the market for years with centers like Vision IAS, Drishti, Insights, etc., somewhat competitors.
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