Why is Coaching Culture Mushrooming in India?

The biggest reason behind the mushrooming of coaching culture in India is the failure of the education system completely. All the successive governments of India have contributed to it either knowingly or unknowingly. If 18 years of formal education do not help you crack the competitive exams, then the accountability of schools and colleges is required to be overhauled. The privatization of education is allowing the private coaching institutes to mint money by fending off the moral and social responsibilities of nation-building. 

The government is unable to create jobs to accommodate the growing population of India, which is nearly 60 crores per se. Even a lack of sufficient colleges and schools is making the condition worse. If all the private schools are shut down, then the government schools are enough to address the problem. Not at all. Almost 70% of the Indian population is living in villages, and not every village has a proper school to educate up to the 12th standard. Colleges are found in district towns only. In order to get a degree, the rural population normally travels 40 km to 60 km on a daily basis to study degree-level courses.  

In urban areas, passing from nursery to 12^th standard may cost around 20 lakhs in a country where the government has been boasting of feeding 80 crore people by distributing subsidized rations (5 kg wheat and 5 kg rice). However, after spending 20 lakhs for basic education, if students are not up to mark to carve their careers in the competitive world, then it deserves an overhaul. All the corporate giants are intruding on the education sector to make money without any accountability. No parents are entitled to ask teachers and schools about the poor performance of their wards. Moreover, when parents and teachers meet, it is a game of exchanging blame in a garb of pleasing smiles. 

Private coaching institutes are rapidly expanding to take advantage of this opportunity. Private institutes are not required to have a trade license to operate in India, and they are profiting from the false hope that they give students and parents. It is difficult to understand why parents waste money and their children's potential when the average number of students appearing for the NEET exam is 23 lakhs, meaning the success rate is 6.52%, and 12 lakh students writing the JEE exam for 57 thousand seats, with a 5% success rate.

There are 1500 careers on offer to choose from, but the majority of Indian students are aspiring to become either doctors or engineers. As per media reports, 38% of IIT graduates remained unemployed this year; still, MBBS and B.Tech courses are ruling the career chart. Parents as well as society pressure the students to get success in these exams that they have no other options left to choose but the private coaching institutes. Again, the misleading advertisements of success stories of students with the help of private coaching institutes encourage the students to follow the path like moths to the bulb. The youth suicide rate between 18 and 24 years has the highest suicide rate, i.e., 35%.  These private coaching institutes do not stop here; they even go forward to convince the parents to let their wards join the private coaching classes from 8^th grade onward to get prepared in advance to crack the NEET and JEE exams. The nexus between private schools and private coaching classes is on the rise to make it the largest growing market size of business to invest in India.