Mukherjee Nagar, Popularly Known for SSC CGL Preparation, is a place in northern
Delhi
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. It is located near
GTB Nagar metro station
The Guru Tegh Bahadur Nagar Metro Station is located on the Yellow Line of the Delhi Metro in Guru Teg Bahadur Nagar (Kingsway Camp).
Station layout
Connections
Delhi Transport Corporation bus routes number 7, 26, 61, 78STL, 100, 101A, ...
Kingsway Camp
Kingsway Camp, officially Guru Teg Bahadur Nagar (GTB Nagar) since 1970, is a historic area located in North West Delhi, near Civil Lines and Delhi University. It starts from Guru Teg Bahadur Nagar (GTB) intersection, and has residential areas ...
. The place is a prominent commercial location for hundreds of private institutions that provide coaching for UPSC and SSC entrance exams. It is considered one of the two hubs of coaching institutes in Delhi, the other being in
Rajendra Nagar, Delhi
Rajendra Nagar (often spelled unofficially as 'Rajender Nagar' or 'Rajinder Nagar'
. Unlike other big players in the industry of educational coaching in India, which prepare students for admissions in institutes for
higher education
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, most institutes in Mukherjee Nagar are government job oriented.
Protests
Filled with a huge number of aspirants and students, Mukherjee Nagar has been the epicenter of many student agendas and protests, especially against UPSC (2013) and against SSC (2017) both of which spread quickly nationwide, and led to involvement of
Government of India
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either in form of
Judicial activism
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in the former, or involving inspection by CBI in the latter.
Connectivity
Mukherjee Nagar is not directly on any metro line. It is connected to Guru Tegh Bahadur Nagar(GTB nagar) on the south, GT Karnal Road on the north,
Nirankari
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colony on the west and
Yamuna River
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on the east by road. There is no railway station or railway line passing through it. The nearest metro station to Mukherjee Nagar is Guru Tegh Bahadur Nagar.
Decline
For the past 2 years, Mukherjee Nagar has been experiencing a decrease in the influx of students. Big Players of the region, including 'Paramount Coaching' and 'KD Campus' are experiencing a decline in business. Many of the institutes and "star faculties" have switched to either
freelancing
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, or online mode of teaching. The main reasons behind this trend in recent years are the land ceilings by
Delhi Government
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, 2016 Indian banknote demonetization and prolonged court cases regarding CGL exams since 2013. The other subsidiary businesses associated and dependent on coaching industries have also felt the impact and have led to an increase in unemployment in teachers and staff alike. These subsidiary businesses include
paying guest
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,
brokerage
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and book shops.
On the contrary, there is one branch of the business that bloomed. This includes online test-series,
YouTube
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channels, live-classes and other
learning management system
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s. This encourages cheaper/free education and resource material for students. However, unlike classroom courses, as the
accountability
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is virtually missing in these new emerging modes of knowledge transmission, it also leaves the students prone to inaccurate information and/or non-directional preparation.
Coaching Industry of Mukherjee Nagar and other parts of Delhi were severely impacted in 2020 because of the
COVID-19 Pandemic
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