Flourishing bottled-water: the best analogy for Flourishing coaching industry in India.

I found the best analogy for Flourishing coaching industry from this article on Deccan Herald. It is a nice article by the way. Here is the excerpt from the article describing the analogy.

In India, the flourishing bottled-water business and the flourishing coaching industry tell a similar story. When a public system fails to provide a service of adequate quality and reliability, a private industry moves into the gap. Families buy drinking water because they do not completely trust what comes out of the tap. They buy coaching because they do not completely trust ordinary schooling or college education to prepare their children for the gateways to higher education and employment. Of course, private tuition has other causes too.

Later, PM Modi announced nation-wide Free online Coaching for Competitive Exams on Independence Day. This came only after CJP and others were able to sack the education minister through their nation-wide protest. Well, better late than never. I hope to see how it pans out.