21-year-old Keralite splurges Rs 10 lakh on new car! Meet IAS aspirant who also runs a thriving coaching business
He has not graduated college yet, but this 21-year-old has already become the toast of his university and hometown for his brand, shiny new car! Sayooj S Chandran, a final-year undergraduate student, became a celebrity of sorts at St Pius X College in Rajapuram, a remote hill village in Kasaragod when he revealed he had splurged a whopping Rs 10 lakh on a new car. These were the earns he made by tutoring IAS exam hopefuls online.
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Sayooj, unbeknownst to his college teachers and friends, operated a thriving IAS coaching channel on YouTube. His tutorials covered a wide array of subjects including current affairs, the civil service aptitude test (CSAT), history, geography, and general studies. Within months of opening the channel, he gained more than 10K views on his videos.
In an interview with Onmanorama, the youngster revealed what inspired him to take up coaching. He claimed that he had started teaching fellow aspirants, as he hoped to retain all the information he had learned. «I initially started the channel as a way to share what I learned with other aspirants so that I would not forget what I learned. A way to revise,» he stated. Sayooj will appear for his first Civil Service Examination (CSE) conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) in May 2025.
His YouTube channel IAS Hub Malayalam boasts of 2.1K subscribers. Dr Asha Chako, the head of the
