Kota Factory in Reality: The "real cost" of Coaching Industry in India
A recent popular web series by TVF (The Viral Fever, a company indulged in creating digital content) named as ‘The Kota Factory’ had stark similarities with the real life coaching industry of the country. The black and white dull cinematography of the show portrayed the mood of lakhs of students, as they identified themselves with the characters like Vaibhav Pandey, ‘Meena’, Uday, Meenal and ‘Jeetu Bhaiya’. As aptly depicted, our coaching industry is expanding at a staggering pace. Once considered as taboo, availing coaching now appears as a permanent feature of every high school going student’s life. There exist various reasons which students and their guardians ascribes to, in order to justify their demand for coaching. The most prominent one being the inability of the mainstream schooling in preparing students beyond the requirement of the board exams. With more focus on securing a seat in a prestigious college through an all India entrance examination, the relevance of...