Congress demands action on pvt coaching centres creating unfair market for exploitation

New Delhi: The Congress demanded regulation of the private coaching centres for various jobs and professional courses across the country. The party said that these centres were resorting to crass profiteering and were exploiting innocent and gullible people.

Addressing a press conference at the AICC office here on Sunday, senior party leader and permanent invitee to the CWC, Kanhaiya Kumar said that the coaching centres had mushroomed across the country and they were exploiting students and some of them were even vanishing within no time after charging hefty fees.

‘28 students are committing suicide every day’

Kumar revealed that the youth of the country were driven so much towards desperation that on average 28 students are committing suicide every day in the country.

He said that the government should take responsibility for such an alarming rate of students’ suicide as it is the result of systematic failure. He added that the system is creating too much pressure on students by selling them unrealistic dreams, which they are unable to fulfil because of a lack of employment opportunities. He demanded that the government fill up all the vacancies in a transparent manner by conducting examinations in a fair manner.

On the coaching centres’ exploitation of aspiring youth, NSUI in charge quoted an example saying, that even if there are just about 100 vacancies for a particular job, there are lakhs of aspirants who try to take the help of coaching centres. He pointed out, that the vacancies will remain the same, but the private coaching centres exploit the desperation of the aspirants who want to succeed in the competition.

Illegal nexus to create unfair competition

Kumar said, there was a nexus between the government and the market forces to create a culture of unfair competition.

Quoting another example, he said, that sometimes some youths are projected as having earned a Rs 1 crore package to attract other helpless students to these coaching centres. “How many youths get such packages?” he asked.

The senior Congress leader asserted that the government must improve the state institutions to ensure that the private sector performs better. He called for improving the public sector in the country while observing, that once the public sector starts functioning well, the private sector will also follow suit and fulfil its responsibility.