MRTPC case on Brilliant Tutorials

The Director General of Investigation and Registration, who has filed the case, has mentioned the examples of about 15 students listed in advertisements who were not enrolled with the institute when they cleared prestigious exams such as IIT Entrance, IAS Entrance and Jipmer Medical Entrance.The petition filed in the Commission has asked that the institute be made to give the success and failure rate for all the students which enrol in their different course for each year. Brilliant Tutorials practice of using the name of students who were not on the rolls in the year which they cleared the exam amounted to “misleading, false and exagerated claims with regard to the quality, benefits and uses of postal coaching facilities being provided by it to the students,” says the petition.

Speaking to the Indian Express from Chennai, the Managing Director of Brilliant Tutorials, T. Neelakanthan, defended the advertisments issued by the institute. “Most students take multiple attempts at examinations like the IAS. Even if they have enrolled for our coaching material in the years previous to the one in which they were selected, we feel that we had a role to play in their success. Some students also re-enrol with us for interview support programme or for updating their material in the year that they are selected.” The petition says that it is the percentage of successful students of a coaching institute which will affect a student’s decision to join or not join the institute. Therefore the institute should furnish this information in its advertisements.