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Article (14) Mental Health: (vi) Indifferent Media and Social Media.
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Media and Social Media keep on writing about the brighter side of the CAT-IIMs. They write about the handful successful candidates selected in IIMs. However, nothing is ever written about the mental health of remaining huge majority of Students; the much bigger darker side of CAT Coaching.
News papers never write anything against Coaching Institutes as they give huge full page advertisements to the News Papers.
Similarly, they write about the highest packages that the students receive from established IIMs but never write about the lowest packages and about the students who remain unemployed despite going to IIMs and IITs.
The point is that Media and Social Media should also write about the darker side of CAT-IIM and the mushrooming Coachingwalas.
Public in general is surely aware of the 'Commercial Education' and the mercenary attitude of Parallel Education System (Coaching Institutes) conducting classes for various competitive exams. But nobody seems to be bothered.
As has been pointed out earlier, almost half of the students preparing for CAT leave Coaching after attending classes for a few months. Meet the dropped out students and their parents and then you will appreciate the issue of mental health.
However in the din of the advertisements of a few successful students of the Coaching Institutes; voice of such dropped out students/parents is not audible.
Arguably, the best solution to curb the menace of the Coaching Institutes is to pressurise governments to have Regulatory Authority to control unfair practices of Coaching Institutes.
Here comes the role of Media and Social Media. Can we, the Social Media, forward these articles to the right persons to improve mental health of young generation?
Can we do something to make the younger generation independent or Self-reliant or आत्म-निर्भर at least in the matter of preparation for CAT?
Can any News Paper start guiding the younger generation on the pitfalls of Coaching Institutes?
Pankaj Khanna
Indore (9424810575)
B.E. (Mech.) SGSITS Indore 1983 Batch
-Worked with HPCL from 1984 to 2007.
-Faculty Maths/DI-LR -T.I.M.E. Indore 2007-20
-Faculty Maths/DI-LR-IMS Indore-June22-July23.
-Blogger on diverse subjects.( Love thy Numbers, Epeolatry, CAT-a-LOG, Corruption in Oil Companies, Tawa Sangeet, Ikshak Indori and a few more.)
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List of Articles of the blog CAT-a-LOG:
Section A: The articles written in this section are about basics of Self-Mentoring, MBA, CAT and perils of Parallel Education System (Coaching Institutes). Everyone concerned about Coaching Classes including the Parents and Students are requested to kindly go through following Articles in this Section before joining any Coaching Institute for CAT.
Section B : This section is all about Mental Health of CAT aspirants. The darker side of CAT Preparation nobody discusses. These articles should also be read by Everyone including Parents and Students.
Section C: It is about detailed CAT Preparation Plans for Students. Parents may also Read:)