Nootan Sharma
The warning bells began to sound last year. First, salaries were delayed by a few days. Then came the pay cuts. And now, a 30-year-old team leader from Noida is still waiting for his November salary. He doesn’t work in the beleaguered tech sector but in a well-known UPSC coaching institute with centres in Karol Bagh and Mukherjee Nagar.
“We’ve been experiencing delays in salary payments. On top of that, people are facing a 20 to 25 per cent salary deduction as well,” said the executive, checking his phone for the familiar notification of his salary being credited. He received his October salary on 7 December but is still waiting for his November and December dues.
Delhi’s coaching hubs of Karol Bagh, Mukherjee Nagar, and Rajendra Nagar have not recovered from the deaths of three UPSC aspirants who drowned in the basement library of their coaching institute in July 2024. Crackdowns by the authorities, concerns about overcrowded classrooms, lack of infrastructure, high fees, and even quality of tutors are seeing parents and aspirants rethink enrolment in brick-and-mortar coaching institutes that were once the mainstay of the Rs 3,000-crore coaching industry.
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