FIITJEE slammed for controversial 'belittling' Ad: Zoho's Sridhar Vembu, IRS officer Katyayani Sanjay Bhatia react
Also Read | North Korea Fires Ballistic Missile as Blinken Visits Seoul The IRS officer also raised concerns about the undue pressure such advertisements could place on students and called upon the Education Ministry and Union Minister for Women and Child Development Smriti Irani to take note of these "advertising malpractices." Bhatia asserted that “no institute has the right to shame students to claim its superiority." Also Read | Dividend paying stock Oil India share price to trade ex-dividend today In the controversial advertisement, FIITJEE traced the student's performance history while at the institute and claimed that she could have scored a perfect 100 NTA score in JEE-Mains 2024 if she had remained with them, dismissing the contribution of the "EVIL institute" as negative. Also Read | Turkey Finance Chief Highlights Central Bank Policy Independence Meanwhile, Sridhar Vembu, said, “India has to get out of this ultra-competitive exam pressure on children and young adults.
This is one area where I would *not* learn from East Asia but instead learn from Finland which has a superb state-funded educational system that serves every child without such competitive insanity." “Intense pressure at a young age all too often destroys talent and creates zombified adults. It is the rat race to extinction.
Intense competition is for companies serving a market and for sports, not for children in education," Vembu added. “As an employer, we have pledged to not even consider academic credentials.
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