Coaching industry comes together to form Coaching Federation of India (CFI)
New Delhi: Indian Education system and coaching have always been used synonymously, to this effect, it is a pleasure to announce the formation of Coaching Federation of India (CFI). CFI is the first industry governing body that will work to protect the interests of coaching industry which has honed millions of successful skilled professionals. One of the mottos of this newly governed body-CFI is to safeguard the interests of all the stakeholders primarily students, parents, teaching and education management professionals.
For the coaching professionals, CFI will play a multi-layered role: one that includes resolving problems through inter-disciplinary structure, providing health and life insurance benefit for financial security of CFI members and their family, regular interface with the government authorities for sundry issues such as relaxation in electricity bills and coaching rents during lockdown period, and a representation for reduction in GST, among others (attached document).
Speaking on the formation of CFI, Mr. Vaibhav Tiwari, CFI President said, “Coaching is a pivot around which the education system revolves. It assumes the form of a shadow especially for deserving strata of our student community enabling them to achieve their career goals. Their importance, thus, can’t be understated. With the coming together and the formation of CFI, we are hopeful that the incumbent government will acknowledge our industry and bring out favourable reforms to strengthen the coaching industry.”
Mr. Saurabh Kumar, Vice- President, CFI further added, “CFI is coming together of common issues and interests of the coaching industry and it is a great initiative which will represent a largely unrecognized sector of India. Although we have observed that the coaching industry grew, but we fell abysmally short when it came to the holistic growth of our teachers. CFI will do its best to bring in positive changes, address grievances affecting the tutorial system and enable improvement in the coaching industry.”
The coaching industry is currently seeing a huge downturn due to Covid-19. Commenting on this, Mr. Alok Dixit, General Secretary, CFI said, “CFI has come in form at a very crucial time as our industry is going through huge losses. We are hopeful that things will be better as we come together and find a way to work through this crisis.” Mr. Satendra Katiyar, Vice-President, CFI affirmed his views while adding, “CFI will have a huge role to play towards the ongoing woes attributed to the pandemic.”
CFI comprises of members from the leading coaching institutions across the country like Bansal Classes, ALLEN, Vidyamandir Classes, etc. who have joined hands to represent this supportive industry critical for the success of a student. Key personnel involved are – Mr. Prathiteshwar Jha, Joint Secretary, CFI, Mr. Vinay Kushwaha, Joint Secretary CFI, Mr. Sunandan Rampal, National Communication Head, CFI, Mrs. Rakhi Mishra, National Cultural and Social Welfare Head, CFI, Mr. Arunendra Soni, National Spokesperson, CFI, Mr. Manish Gupta, Treasurer, CFI and Mrs. Varsha Singh, National Training workshop and Technical Head, CFI.