Continuing growth of coaching industry in India

 Continuing growth of coaching industry in India.

India has 1.5 million government and private schools with 50 lakhs sanctioned strength of teachers and 1200 universities in the government and private sectors. However, the most high profile entity dominating the landscape is a private coaching company with market valuation above twenty billion dollars. It is important to understand how the private coaching or tuition industry has become so widespread in India.

During and after independence, the education system in India was basic and upto the nineties the schools were the only centres of education. After returning from schools, students used to complete the homework and taking help from someone outside was considered a weakness of such students.

Tuition teachers were also considered as business minded and did not get much respect. But today the private tuition business has grown to be a parallel industry comparable to the main education system itself.

Today children rush from schools to homes only to hurry to the tuition classes.
Children in India start taking tuitions from the age of four onwards otherwise they will be left behind by other children, it is feared by parents.

The starting tuition fee for each subject is about four hundred rupees per month and can go upto 1000 rupees.
Alongwith school fees, the tuition fees combined costs 12% of the income of the lower middle class parents.
The private tuitions are bankrupting the middle classes while pushing the already bankrupt poor classes into indebtedness.
However, people have come to accept that private tuitions are the only way to good education for their children.

When the children complete 10th standard, they are compelled by the competitive environment to join the coaching for medical and engineering entrance exams for two years.
The more prominent and much publicized coaching is for the IAS ,IPS etc , in general for all the competitive civil services examinations conducted by the Central government and the about thirty state governments individually. The staff selection commission recruits upto clerical level and the Railway Recruitment Board recruits class IV employees too.
Tuition has become a more powerful necessity than regular studies and this need has been converted into a money minting system by the tuition and coaching industry.

Out of the twenty eight crore children in schools, one out of four, that is about seven crore children are dependent on tuitions. A child spends 9 hours a week in tuition classes, which is equivalent to staying in school for an additional one and a half days.

Among the states, West Bengal tops the private tuition scenario with 89% of students taking tuition from 9th to 12th standards, followed by Tripura at 87%, Bihar at 67%, Odisha at 64% and Manipur at 55%.

In tuitions, individual attention is given to each student in return for the money, the parents are happy about the good education their children are getting.
The schools usually have thirty to sixty students in each class and in such a crowd it is natural for the students to feel they do not understand the subjects well and their doubts are not getting cleared. That's why the need for tuitions has become imperative for good education.

There is another reason also, not significant enough to solve the pervasive need or problem though, that is the number of teachers not available for teaching due to the shortage of 17% from the sanctioned strength, about one on five teachers missing due to the government's lethargy in filling up the vacant posts of teachers.

The coaching and tuition business is worth 30 thousand crores, about four billion dollars, annually in 2022. It continues to grow at around 7% year on year.

Upto 12th the tuition is for good education, individual attention of each student by the tuition teacher for getting high marks.
But simultaneously, since the students want to prepare for the medical and engineering entrance exams alongwith 11th and 12th standards, they join coaching for this more importantly.
Some of them tactically skip the tuition for general subjects because they are aware that the 11th or 12th exam scores have no weightage in the medical and engineering admissions.

For M& E coaching the annual fees is around 1.5 lakh rupees and they spend three lakhs for this preparation over two years.

A global education census data says that 93% students in South Korea,83% in Malaysia and 70% students in Japan also take private tuitions. Compared to the nineties, it is clear that the private tuition industry has grown big worldwide.

Compared to global scale, India spends only 3.2 billion dollars annually in coaching industry, which is just 1.4% of the global investment or annual spending.

Abbakka 1555 Indian War Of Independence!

 _*Did you know this story?*_ 

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The year was *1555* . 

Portuguese colonial power was at its peak in the 1500’s. 

They destroyed Zamorins of Calicut. 

Defeated the Sultan of Bijapur. 

Took away Daman from the Sultan of Gujarat.

 

Established a colony in Mylapore, Captured Bombay and made Goa as their headquarters. 

And while they were at it, pretty much unchallenged, they even ruined the ancient Kapaleeswarar Temple to build a Church over it.

Their next target, the super profitable port of Mangalore.

Their only bad luck, just 14 kilometers south of Mangalore was the small settlement of *Ullal* - ruled then by a feisty 30 year old woman - *RANI ABBAKKA CHOWTA*

Initially, they took her lightly and sent a few boats and soldiers to capture and bring her back to Goa - Those boats never came back.

Shocked and enraged, they sent a huge fleet of ships this time, under the command of much celebrated Admiral Dom Álvaro da Silveira - The admiral soon returned, badly injured and empty handed.

Thereafter, another Portuguese fleet was sent - only a few injured from the crew managed to make it back.

Then the Portuguese went on to capture the Mangalore port and the fort anyways, perhaps planning to tackle Rani Abbakka Chowta from the convenient distance of the Mangalore fort.

After the successful capture of Mangalore, a huge army under João Peixoto, an experienced Portuguese General was sent to Ullal.

*The brief was simple: Subjugate Ullal and capture Abbakka Chowta.* 

The plan was foolproof- there was no way a 30 year old lady with a few men could withstand the might of an army of thousands with advanced weapons.

*The Portuguese reached Ullal and found it deserted. Abbakka was nowhere in sight.*

 _*They roamed around, relaxed and thanked their stars.*_ 

 _*Just when they were about to call it a victory - Mrs Chowta attacked with 200 of her chosen men*_ 

There was chaos all around and many portuguese lost their lives even without a fight.

General João Peixoto was assassinated, 70 Portuguese were captured and the rest just ran away.

*So if you’re Abbakka Chowta, who’s just defeated a large army of aggressors, killed a general, captured fighters and defended her city - What will you do?*

- _Rest and enjoy the moment right?_ 

- Right?

- No!

*_Rani Abbakka Chowta, rode with her men towards Mangalore that same night, and laid a siege of the Mangalore fort - She not just broke inside the fort successfully - but assassinated Admiral Mascarenhas the Chief of the Portuguese power there and forced the remaining Portuguese to vacate the fort.*_

She didn’t just stop at this but went on to even capture the Portuguese settlement at Kundapura, a full 100 kms, north of Mangalore - Just to make a point.

The Portuguese finally managed to get back at Abbakka Chowta by *convincing her estranged husband, ( a traitor) to betray for money.* 

She was arrested and put in the prison where she revolted again and was killed while trying to escape.

*Lesson from story* : It is the local Indians, who themselves are responsible for slavery of our nation for 1000 years by siding with Enemies.

*Abbakka Chowta was a Jain who fought against the Portuguese for four decades, with an army comprising of both Hindus and Muslims, a full 300 years before the First War of Indian Independence in 1857.*

What did we Indians do to her, as a mark of our respect and gratitude? 

*- We just forgot her.* 

We didn’t name our girls after her. 

We didn’t even teach her stories to our kids.

Yes we did release a Postal Stamp in her name, named a boat after her and erected 2 statues - yes just 2 statues in the whole of India for someone who should be our national hero.

The Indian Coast Guard ship ICGS Rani Abbakka the 1st of a series of five inshore patrol vessels built at Hindustan Shipyard Ltd is named after Abbakka Mahadevi.

We might have got to read a chapter about her in our text books, had she been a European or an American.

Many talk about her being the last Indian to have the power of the agni-ban. 

In all this cacophony, our generation has lost a great hero - a great source of inspiration.

Still wondering why you’ve not heard about her yet?

Because people like you deleted and forgot it, please spread the message so that people can become aware of their lineage!

Difficulties of being saintly!

 The difficulties of being saintly:

Florence Nightingale 1820-1910

Tides of 1856 Crimean War

The military authorities angered by the interference of the Times, refused to admit that anything was wrong. The departments hastened to justify themselves.

When the emergency had passed, opposition to Miss Nightingale again arose. Admiration and gratitude disappeared and she was so victimised by petty jealousies and treacheries that she was miserably depressed and in the end obsessed with a sense of failure.

The high spirit and faith which had sustained her through the first months faded and she learned the powers of official intrigues.

We have to deal with men whose only object is to keep themselves out of blame.

Dr. John Hall was revengeful, powerful and a master of the confidential reports.

"Dr. Hall is dead against me. He descends to every meanness to make my position more difficult."

She was perpetually tormented by official spite. It was the defeat of justice by power.

Inertia was great, entrenched bureaucratic obstruction powerful.

She appealed to the sympathetic quarters of the war office.

But the Hall and Fitz party openly declared to root her out of Crimea.

And at last, on March 16,1856, a dispatch establishing her position in terms far beyond anything of which she had ever dreamed reached the Crimea.

1 CRORE AMAZON OFFER 135K

 About the offer of one crore per annum salary, 100K stock option, 70k signing bonus in Amazon to an SRM student! A dialogue!

Yes, we are aware of it. 1 cr per annum -amazing.

Congratulations to Mohan!

Just add some context here and not to reduce his achievements in any way:

1 cr rupees per annum is equivalent to $130k which is a standard base salary for fresh graduates by Amazon. 

And he would have been allocated Amazon stocks for another $100k that takes 4 years to vest.

Facebook and Google offers are much higher and difficult to beat when competing with them.

He shoukd have also got a sign on bonus of $70k that’s given out in two installments.

That’s the total Amazon freshman package

$130-135k base, $100k Stocks and 70k sign-on bonus

Mostly he will be stuck in this salary for another 10+ years , until he goes into MGMT.

Haha, it’s not that bad. They bump up if they do well. But he will have to put in lot of after hours - especially on calls at nights.

With this salary in CA and most Metrocities, he can barely *share* & rent a decent one bed room apartment.

Yes, absolutely. With apartment rent, car and buying meals - no savings in salary

Not sure about Germany

Same - very very high taxes in Europe.

In US, best is being in - good in own business - any business. 

From laundry dry cleaning, owning chain barber shops to IT body shops, lots of money.

Agree, even if it is a small business one can do well because of the tax breaks and support. Only issue is hiring good people.

Yes

I met a guy , (when I landed here), running a hotel. 

He had masters in North Western - much bigger than IITs. He quit the job , went to hotel. Another one selling Burgers in Mc ( a Wharton graduate Desi )

U need luck -

  We can have all skills, hard work.

Still, luck is the very important thing in businesses.

Gujarathi’s who bought run down motels 20 years ago are making a killing by selling them now! To the extent of 100s of millions

Very enterprising enterprenars, high level of hard work.

My neighbor is the 

India Grocers owner , US biggest chain of groceries.

Both he and his wife , built it big , their stores and other businesses. 

She used to travel and run businesses, out of state for a few days every week.

Inflation in US is so high, in 3 months , consumables and general merchandise, exploded in prices.

I am not sure, it will happen in India .

This inflation is so high, the Indian middle class , can't handle, if it happens in India. If it happens, many middle class will suffer for food and basic needs.

Relationship,time,action and results management

The effortless blog after

no effort but only getting ready for the effort

Building relationship

You have to work on it

Emotions are connections

Hyper efficient and effective communication

If you are a big person formally

You will be alone normally

Being able to be alone also is a great mastery

But to be together is a social necessity

Identify friends

And learn to cultivate friendship

One has to try ten times to pick one

Remembering what you are

Single role playing gives steady mind

Sharpening the mind

Reading success books

Get ideas which motivate

Action man just does it

Six action shoes

Riding boots

sneakers 

Dress shoes

Six thinking hats

Information legal hope passion emotion optimism realistic

Steps tasks jobs projects

Mission

Any small work requires

A few steps, be ready

Keep both handy

Legs and mind free

Time management

Say no to fragmented management

Concentrate for 3 hours and

If you do upto 36 hours

You are the master of the world and owner of your life

If you have to complete anyway and the easy way

Focus for 18 minutes

And 36 minutes

Work gets completed even without your knowing

Irving Wallace worked

3000 hours continuously

In 582 working days

Parker typed 2000 words per day

List out the routines

Bathing, eating, washing, sleeping, commuting

During warm up time

Sharpen the pencil

You will start the work

When you start the work

Mood will come

Write details of the work

Contents of the article

Points for the call

You are ready for all

Doctorate under Armstrong and Indian population soon to touch one billion. (100 crores)

 Doctorate under Armstrong and Indian population soon to touch one billion. (100 crores)

Q & A\Dinesh Keshkar 

Aiming and Flying High

Boeing India president Dinesh Keshkar is a busy man these days closely tracking the developments in the civil aviation ministry, Indian Airlines and Air India. 

The run-up to aircraft sales can be trying . But Keshkar, who, incidentally, did his doctorate under Neil Armstrong, remains confident. 

He sees the aviation market in the country as rich, and is optimistic about his company's performance. 

In a conversation with Sangita P Menon Malhan, the chief of the global aircraft manuefacturing giant in the country asks about competition with Airbus the civil aviation policy and  the domestic market

aviation market? 

We have been a part of this for 40 years.

 In the last 9-10 years particularly, we have been the dominant player in the Indian market .

All the private carriers are flying only Boeings. The domestic market will grow. The growth rate will certainly depend on several economic factors.

But in India, with population soon to touch one billion, the number of people flying within the country is still only 13-14 million a year, which is very small. 

If you look at it, many, of these are repeat passengers.

 But the growth rate will come. And this is one of the richer markets to tap besides China.

We are predicting that roughly for the next 20 years, there will be a need for about US$ 20 billion worth of airplanes, that is approximately 275 aircraft. And that includes the 737 types. It is a good market, poised to take-off and it has been good, though growth has not been as much as we would have liked it to be. But it will possibly go up as the economic condition continues to get better.

What prospective sale do you antici pate to the airlines especially Indian

Airlines and Air India?

 India has a need for many air

planes. The private airlines are expanding, Both Jet and Sahara fly our planes And even erstwhile airlines like Modiluft, East West and Damania flew Boeings, Coming to Indian Airlines, it is very well known that the airline has an ageing fleet of 737-200s, which have entered service over 20 years, to replace them, we have the 237-600. Boeing 717 is offered as a replacement for the 100-seater. Coming to Air India, evaluation of re- quirements is on. In this regard may I say that airlines have started flying the 777-300. This is an airplane in two classes over close to seats bigger than the 777-200.

 AI was looking at this as a 300-seater. Thai Airways and Cathay Pacific are going to soon introduce the 777-300 into the Indian market Perhaps, Air India should take note of that.

The aircraft purchase campaign seems to have shifted from the MCLR to the short-capacity air lplanes at Al. In this context, is there a market in India for such a big airplane esperally keeping Air India's financial situation in mind?

Two things must happen if Al has to remain competitive. It must have a modern fleet, and to compete effectively, have aircraft that meet the cost targets of competitors Faring that, Al will not be able to make money even if it fills its plane to 100 per cent capacity. So it is for that reason that Al must look 

at the size of an airplane: the size of a bigger 767 or the smaller 777. If Al flies a bigger plane, it will have the advantage of seat-mile cost. Its cost of operation per passenger will be lower. It will be able to compete. Al has a 747-400 which is the largest airplane anybody flies today. It can compete effectively because there isn't a better airplane.

Does Boeing have plans to help these airlines sell off their old aircraft?

Yes In our old proposal for the 777 that was given to Al in 1995, we offered to buyback the old air planes in return for Air India buying the 777. We know it has to replace the fleet and the airline does not have as much market access as we do.

How will Boeing help these airlines with their finances?

The only airplanes Al ever bought in this decade have been 6 Boeing 747-400s and all of them were financed by the Exim Bank of US. The financing was guaranteed. 

Financially, we can assist any airline

Is there any truth in the statement that Boeing aircraft are fuel guzzlers compared to Airbus?

Fuel is an important factor in any competition. If you look at the existence of the Boeing airplane and the fleets of major carriers, you will see that in many places, the product had met that criteria. In the notion of fuel burns, we are head of Airbus. We have far more experience. And far more planes flying in the sky. In fact, several thousand more. There are over 9000 Boeings flying all over the world which is nowhere close to Airbus. We have sold more 717 alone than the entire Airbus fleet put together in the world. So, there is no competition when it comes to delivery. Last year, we delivered 564 airplanes. Airbus probably did not do even half of that. This year, we will deliver 620 airplanes. There is a clear-cut difference between our product line and theirs. Ours starts as low as the 100 seater all the way to the Jumbo. If you look at Airbus  range, their smallest air plane is the A-319 which has 126 seats and their biggest today is the A340-300 which has 300 seats. 

What happens to your 737s?

Are they being used out?

 The 737-200s are very much there. Some have been replaced by the 600/700/800 series. Then, there are cargo markets These airplanes will have a market as long as they make money. They can be converted to freighters.

 What do you think of the civil aviation policy? We got so many airplanes into this country under this policy. But world over regularization and privatisation are preferred. US is a great example where the change in the policy of civil aviation led to a huge increase in the fleet sizes and better prices for the consumer.

How do you see domestic traffic in the coming years?

The capacity in the domestic market is coming. There should be a growth rate of 4-5 per cent every year. There is a direct linkage in the market growth for aviation and the GDP growth for the country.

 Are you more confident than Airbus about catering to the requirements of Al and IA?

We have a 60 per cent market share. Our product is worldclass We are a 55 billion dollar company, in existence since 1916. And we dominate the Indian skies. Need I say more!?

How to solve Starting trouble in anything,

 13 6 99 Sunday

Wake up pray - Spirit, Emotion, Mind, Body sharpen, warm up, upgrade .

Only the fittest will survive.

Upgrade or perish 

How to solve

Starting trouble in anything, 

Form a habit, it becomes automatic then only.

Changes in Objective ,affect the routines.

 Before getting posting order, I was pursuing it. After getting it I did not know what to do, this is the rule with all youth who chase a dream, when they reach the dream they don't know what to do!

Spiritual Sharpening or awakening consists of Reading Scriptures, Sacred space in TOI, Bhagavad Gita.

Emotional awakening Reading Daniel Goleman and remembering points to apply,

1.Flooding 2. Team mates.

3.Human Nature and adjusting to it.

4. Be ready to take on any eventuality. 

5.Mental Imaging - where do I stand,

 I don't know Marathi, I don't know transport routes, Market rates in Mumbai etc.

 

 A polite and humble image - one who does not know anything important, treat this place (Borivili) as your own village and deal with people in a friendly way.

 Don't be tipsy!

Remembering erroneous zones : security people, conductors, peons, perverted officials, women, powerful persons,

Bombayites unsociable in 1999.

 

 வேறு :

At 430pm left for outing to Church Gate. Future Shock Available for 50/- bought maps 20/ Best guide 15/ ,t

Tried to get information from  strangers in ordinary man's clothes, almost all of them hurt. Later took it as survey',

Bombayites value appearance, 

 Binocular boy refused to show it 2200 (Bawees sow) he told and took it back .Bad emotional experiences. did not ask directions afterwards  .t

Lost the room key while taking mapor guide .B

Bombay people are not sociable. In the train back two slum class fellows were warm 

Bought plums after a lot of thought 1/2 kg at 10, Bananas 9 for 10Rs. 

Took veg fried rice at CG -10/- Cold coffee 10 Road ahead enquired Rs. 100/

Books, Men are from Mars, Road Ahead, Don't sweat small things, Future Shock etc.

Ticket checking at Church Gate done at random at 9 PM. Saw checking only two boys who had tickets.

Western Railway head-quarters, architectural quality and artful illumination.

Reserve space to store trophies.

 Today  preparation to preserve fruits of labour.

Reserve space to store trophies. 

Happy Mood Training.

Six Action Shoes

White sneakers, riding shoes, red shoes, brogues, formal shoes

Six Thinking Hats

White Blue Green Red Black Yellow

Between one action. and other do not lie down to take rest. or to think or to worry.

 When in the field you have to move to next action without lying down.

Remember. You are starting  a new life and forming habits now only.

AJAY JADEJA - exuberant enjoys the big time, able to perform best under pressure. - Imran. 

You need not think that neet whatever you have done in life so far is wrong and lose your confidence. 

In fact you are one of the ablest persons in India.

Urban middle class boys!

 10-6-99

URBAN MIDDLE CLASS BOYS ARE MORE AMICABLE, AMENABLE AND OPEN TO NEW FRIENDSHIP, OPEN TO PHYSICAL EXPERIENCES, UNLIKE THE LMC AND SLUM CLASS BOYS WHO ARE HOT TEMPERED, HAUGHTY AND VIOLENT.

Got the posting order after much persuasion, Chanda, Saha morose!

11-6-99 

My woes not ended- as good as no post at all- no office, no staff, no vehicle only targets - demoralised.

12-6-99 Saturday

I started with entering 'suspension' in biodata. It snowballed into a punishment non-post. Adhikari harped on it. Others picked up. Now Saha tells about roaming here and there and saving. How many people will function as vigilance officers?!

Bombay is a complicated system. Travelling from one place to another requires so many clarifications. Likewise, every other aspect, even getting salary needs many travelling, moving here and there.

Life here is different and difficult and depressing.

Never worry about vehicle or any office support . It will be only a nuisance and burden. Better to move around and not to remain stagnant, use public transport, understand it and it may become friendly. But it is harmless and does not invite attention and envy and bad feelings.

After completing one work I am entering into another phase which requires some thinking only to plan the action. It may look like confusion, but it is only my lack of awareness. I am weak in assessing the present position, assessing resources available, where I want to go. If I cultivate this, the confusion will vanish.

Morover, I am getting nightmarish about travel and accidents. I must learn first aid and trained care, minor surgery, pharmaceutical licencing etc.