IELTS centres go online to offset lockdown losses

PK Jaiswar

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Tribune News Service

Amritsar, September 16

IELTS coaching centres are among the worst-hit institutions in the city due to the lockdown. These along with tuition centres owners had recently urged the government for allowing them to resume business.

Nevertheless, this seems unlikely for now considering the fact the number of Covid cases and deaths are rising day by day in the state. Recently, the police also booked owners of several IELTS centres for running business violating the state government’s directions.

Ankit Manglani, who runs an IELTS coaching centre in Ranjit Avenue area, said, “Things are going to worsen in the near future as the situation has worsened. We have to pay rents and salaries. It was becoming very difficult for us to survive in this financial crunch.”

Manglani said, “I got created a mobile application for providing IELTS online coaching classes. We worked hard for making it a success,” he said, adding that he, along with his team, worked for almost 18 hours daily. “I have a staff of around seven persons, including those handling the entire technological aspect. We are now one of the few IELTS coaching centres in the state that has transferred the entire work online,” he said. “Now, we are getting a good response from students across the country,” he claimed.

Earlier, we used to have 100 to 125 students from Amritsar city and nearby areas. But, with jumping into online education, we are now catering to students not only from across the country but some students from middle-east countries including Qatar and Dubai besides Canada, he claimed. “We have now students from Delhi and Mumbai also,” he said.