One of India’s oldest coaching centers, FIITJEE, is facing big problems. Teachers are upset with the management because they haven’t been paid for six months and have been skipping classes. This made a lot of teachers resign, leaving many centers closed when students need help the most, right before important entrance exams.
Recently, several FIITJEE locations shut down, including those in Noida, Ghaziabad, Meerut, Varanasi, Lucknow, Pune, and Kolkata. Many parents whose kids go to these centers have complained to the police. Because of the sudden closures, many parents had to enroll their children in other coaching centers or online platforms, especially as students get ready for the next JEE (Mains) in April. The first round of these exams just finished.
FIITJEE was started in 1991 by DK Goel, an IIT-Delhi graduate. Students at FIITJEE said that teachers have not been showing up for their classes, which made things chaotic. This led to a fight between the teachers and the management, which then caused teachers to leave when the school didn’t pay them. Some teachers have joined other institutes for better pay, and others are thinking about starting their own coaching centers.
In Noida’s Sector-62 and Ghaziabad, just before shutting down, students were told to join classes at Aakash, another popular coaching center. One FIITJEE center in South Kolkata, which was doing really well until recently, closed suddenly without telling anyone and merged with another coaching center. Parents of students at these centers said their kids told them that teachers were not coming to class and later announced they were resigning because they weren’t being paid.
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