90 per cent of offline coaching centres will disappear within 15 years: Educator Anand Kumar

New Delhi [India], August 1 (ANI): Founder of the Super 30 educational program, Anand Kumar expressed the opinion that in the coming 10 to 15 years, 90 per cent of offline coaching centres would disappear.

Kumar was speaking to ANI exclusively following the Delhi coaching incident which claimed three lives.

He was asked why students were forced to leave their home states and towns and come to Delhi to study despite so much online content being available. Kumar said, “They can read. It’s my prediction that might be wrong. In the coming 10 to 15 years, 90 per cent of these coaching institutes are going to disappear. I can say this from my experience.”

“Now only one per cent of experiments have been done in the field of online classes. Syllabus for online classes with good quality content is yet to be prepared. If some dedicated group of teachers prepare such content, the students can do online classes by sitting in their homes and they will benefit much more than the offline classes,” he said.

Making an appeal to the government for UPSC aspirants Kumar said, “I would like to appeal to the government for form a team for UPSC aspirants and free coaching. After years of effort, a good book like NCERT has been written. I am praising the book and not the government. I am praising the team involved in writing the book. I do read Class 11 and 12 books and it feels good. So the education department should come up with a similar initiative and launch a big portal dedicated to online coaching.”

While calling the Old Rajender Nagar incident where three UPSC aspirants lost their lives “extremely saddening,” Anand Kumar said that students have now become clients for the coaching centres.

He also requested that the coaching centres should not rush just to earn money. “It was extremely saddening to hear that three innocent students who had come to Delhi to qualify for the UPSC exam died in the accident. I want to express my deepest condolences and pray to god that their souls rest in peace.

Such an issue comes to light when these incidents occur but it is the responsibility of the government to carry out inspections from time to time and I request the coaching institutes to not rush just to earn money,” he said. He also asserted that a smaller number of students should be enrolled so that there are proper seating arrangements for them.

“Even though I got a lot of offers from investors to sell the franchise of my coaching institute so that it could be expanded, my conscience did not allow me to do that. I request coaching institutions that education should not become a business but rather, continue the teaching process by keeping the interests of the children at the centre,” Kumar added.

The Super 30 founder pointed out that in coaching centres today, people addressed parents as “clients”.