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Professional coaching institutes FIIT-JEE and Brilliant Tutorials have incurred the wrath of the Delhi Consumer Commission for their failure to refund fees to students who opted out of a course in the middle of a session. Dismissing the appeals of both the institutes in separate decisions, the commission pulled them up for ignoring its earlier direction restraining educational institutes from collecting a one-time fee for a two or a three-year course. The commission in recent orders directed FIIT-JEE to pay Rs 62,000 to Pramod Panwar and ordered Brilliant Tutorials to pay Rs 23,000 to Ashish Yadav. The commission also slapped a fine of Rs 10,000 on Brilliant’s Tutorial. “By charging consideration for 2-3 years duration, the institutes force the students to go on attending their classes despite there being unsatisfactory services or grossest deficiency in the quality of teaching, which jeopardise their career prospects,” it noted in identical orders. Reiterating that the clause stating “fees once paid is non-refundable” was unconscionable and amounted to unfair trade practice, the commission said such a term was adverse to the interest of the consumer. A candidate is “justified” in leaving a course mid-way as continuing with a non-yielding training would prove futile, it said, adding that the institutes could not be allowed to usurp the consideration without having provided any service to them.
— PTI
Course in retail management With the booming retail sector expected to generate around 2.2 million employment jobs in the next three years, the Retailers Association of India would be offering a postgraduate programme in retail management. Retailers Association of India CEO Gibson G. Vedamani said the course would be offered through 15 chosen B-schools all over the country. The association has also introduced CART (Common Admission Retail Test) for selecting students for the course. CART, which would be held on January 27, across 25 cities, would comprise quantitative ability, data interpretation and logical awareness, verbal skills and business and consumer awareness. “The objective of the course is to provide students with a high skill level and knowledge, understanding the concepts and processes involved in retailing and equipping them with operational and analytical skills required for a professional career in the retail sector,” he said.
— PTI Vocational training The government is preparing a special vocational training package with five-star hotels to upgrade the skills of inmates staying at shelter homes to enable them find better career opportunities. The women and child development ministry along with ITC group of hotels are coming up with a project that will train inmates in housekeeping and similar areas for better career prospects. This course is designed for inmates to help them acquire skills to work in a wide variety of business sectors related to hotel, hospitality, leisure, tourism and care occupations. The training will initially be started in New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and Hyderabad.
— PTI Malaysia to recruit Indians Malaysia plans to increase the number of its Indian and Chinese officials by 10 per cent in two years to help promote the country’s tourism in India and China. Chinese newspaper Sin Chew has quoted Donald Lim Siang Chai, Malaysia’s deputy tourism minister, as saying that only 19 Indians and nine Chinese are among the 1,300 officers working in the ministry and tourism departments. The government is planning to increase the number of Chinese and Indian officials by 10 per cent to help penetrate the tourism market in China and India, the minister said. He said having officers who could speak in native languages during their promotional activities overseas would definitely bring in more “sales” as there would be no language barrier.
— IANS Short-term work permits In a move that could help Indians seeking employment in the Emirate, the UAE will start granting short-term work permits for a period of six months starting from January 2 in the wake of labour shortage in the country. The decision announced by UAE minister of labour Ali Bin Abdullah Al Ka’abi will allow companies in all sectors to apply for mission work permits for their employees who are in probation period or who are in the country for a short-term job. “Implementing the mission work permit will help solve the problem of people working on visit visa and it will give greater flexibility in the relationship between the employer and the employee,” Al Ka’abi was quoted as saying in Gulf News. At present, people working on a visit visa are illegal and are thus not protected by the labour law.
— PTI
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