2 coaching centres fined for unfair trade practices & misleading ads

NEW DELHI: Consumer extortion regulator CCPA has imposed penalties of Rs 10 lakh and Rs 5 lakh connected Motion Education Pvt Ltd and Career Line Coaching (CLC), Sikar, respectively, for publishing misleading advertisements astir JEE and NEET results, and unfair commercialized practices.In a statement, Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) said the advertisements published by the 2 institutes concealed important accusation astir courses attended by students whose occurrence stories were featured successful their promotional materials.Motion Education had advertised a 91.2% NEET qualification complaint and a 51% IIT-JEE Advanced walk rate, displaying details of palmy students online. CCPA’s probe recovered that a bulk of the featured students had enrolled successful ‘I-Eklavya (Online)’ — a people offered escaped of outgo to selected students done a trial and interrogation process. None of the ads mentioned this. CLC had claimed ‘1650+ CLCians successful MBBS, IIT & Others’ — a fig the institute described arsenic cumulative selections since 1996, lone to assertion during the proceeding that it referred to 2024 alone.