{"id":38188,"date":"2023-11-17T11:50:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T06:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=38188"},"modified":"2025-04-23T08:40:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T03:10:15","slug":"ccpa-probing-ias-coaching-centres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ccpa-probing-ias-coaching-centres\/","title":{"rendered":"CCPA probing IAS coaching centres for misleading ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Why in news?<\/li>\n<li>What is Consumer Protection Act, 2019?<\/li>\n<li>What is Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA)?<\/li>\n<li>News Summary: CCPA probing IAS coaching centres for misleading ads<\/li>\n<li>What are the observations made by CCPA regarding IAS coaching institutes?<\/li>\n<li>Coaching industries in India<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why in news?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) is probing 20 IAS coaching institutes for making misleading claims in their advertisements and for unfair trade practices.<\/li>\n<li>Four of the twenty institutions have already been slapped with a penalty of Rs 1 lakh.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Consumer Protection Act, 2019<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/media\/editor_images\/2023\/11\/17\/13\/24\/29\/65571c358bd4de05a492d54e_OI.PNG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Consumer Protection Act, 2019 replaced the <u>Consumer Protection Act, 1986<\/u>, and seeks to widen its scope in addressing consumer concerns.<\/li>\n<li>The new Act recognises offences such as providing false information regarding the quality or quantity of a good or service, and misleading advertisements.<\/li>\n<li>It also specifies action to be taken if goods and services are found \u201cdangerous, hazardous or unsafe\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>The Act came into force in July 2020 and it will empower consumers and help them in protecting their rights through its various notified rules and provisions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>About:The CCPA is a statutory body constituted under Section 10 of the Consumer Protection Act, 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Mandate: To protect the rights of the consumer by cracking down on unfair trade practices, and false and misleading advertisements that are detrimental to the interests of the public and consumers.<\/li>\n<li>Concerned Ministry: Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution<\/li>\n<li>Powers &amp; Functions of CCPA: It is empowered to:\n<ul>\n<li>conduct investigations into violation of consumer rights and institute complaints \/ prosecution,<\/li>\n<li>order recall of unsafe goods and services,<\/li>\n<li>order discontinuation of unfair trade practices and misleading advertisements,<\/li>\n<li>impose penalties on manufacturers\/endorsers\/publishers of misleading advertisements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>News Summary: CCPA probing IAS coaching centres for misleading ads<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>India&#8217;s consumer protection regulator, CCPA, is investigating 20 IAS coaching centres for alleged misleading advertisements and unfair trade practices.<\/li>\n<li>The centres are accused of using toppers and successful candidates&#8217; names and pictures to influence prospective aspirants.<\/li>\n<li>Four centres have already been fined Rs 1 lakh each.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Observations made by CCPA<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Every time the results of any competitive exam, including the UPSC Civil Services, are announced, coaching institutes would go an advertising spree.<\/li>\n<li>Names and pictures of the top rankers are used in these ads to indicate their enrolment at the institute.<\/li>\n<li>However, they do not disclose the nature of the enrolment, that is, the course they might have pursued in the institute.\n<ul>\n<li>Ideally, the advertisements must include the course they enrolled for (which could be a test series, learning course or a revision course).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Thus, it would qualify as deliberate concealment of important information and categorisation as a <u>\u2018misleading advertisement\u2019 under Section 2(28) of the Consumer Protection Act, 2019<\/u>.\n<ul>\n<li>First time violations may invite penalties up to Rs 10 lakh.<\/li>\n<li>Subsequent violations may attract penalties up to Rs 50 lakh, with other potential legal action should the non-compliance continue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Coaching industries in India<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Size of coaching industries\n<ul>\n<li>According to a study, the coaching class market in <u>India is expected to reach about Rs 1.79 lakh crore by 2030<\/u>.<\/li>\n<li>It is expected to grow at a Compounded Annual Growth Rate of 14.07% over a forecast period of 2023-30.<\/li>\n<li>Categorising the market based on types and channels, the study highlights that higher education holds the largest market share \u2014 of about 32.75% in 2022.\n<ul>\n<li>This is expected to increase to 34.75% over the same forecast period.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Key factors that have led to the creation of a thriving market\n<ul>\n<li>Poor quality of teaching in schools<\/li>\n<li>High competition<\/li>\n<li>Increased preference for high-quality education among parents<\/li>\n<li>New generation wants to achieve things quickly and easily<\/li>\n<li>Increased income level<\/li>\n<li>Increase in the number of students pursuing higher education and professional courses<\/li>\n<li>To gain a competitive edge and improve their academic performance\n<ul>\n<li>Coaching institutes provide students with tools like practice exams, study guides, and individual tutoring.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What are misleading advertisements?<\/h3>\n<p>A misleading advertisement is one that deceives or is likely to deceive people. It can also affect their economic behavior.<\/p>\n<h3>Q2) What are the rights of a consumer?<\/h3>\n<p>The eight basic consumer rights are: Right to basic needs; Right to safety; Right to information; Right to choose<\/p>\n<p>Right to representation; Right to redress; Right to consumer education; Right to a healthy environment.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/education\/misleading-ads-for-ias-coaching-institutes-being-probed-by-consumer-protection-body-explained\/article67485182.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>\u2018Misleading\u2019 ads for IAS coaching institutes being probed by consumer protection body | Explained<\/u><\/a><u> | <\/u><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/industry\/services\/education\/ccpa-probing-20-ias-coaching-centres-for-misleading-ads-unfair-trade-practices\/articleshow\/104655894.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Economic Times<\/u><\/a><u> | <\/u><a href=\"https:\/\/theprint.in\/feature\/indias-tuition-republic-is-bigger-than-ever-coaching-culture-is-an-epidemic-now\/1270638\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>The Print<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CCPA is a statutory body constituted to protect the rights of the consumers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":38189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}