949 With a spurt in Covid cases in Punjab recently, the operators are worried that another lockdown would finish the industry.
Tribune News Service
Amritsar, February 23
After remaining closed for nearly seven months due to the pandemic, the IELTS coaching centres, though were permitted by the government to open in the last week of October, the operators rue that students are not turning up.
They said the student strength was down by almost 50 per cent. With a spurt in Covid cases in Punjab recently, the operators are worried that another lockdown would finish the industry.
In 2021, the agenda for these centres is to stay afloat and survive till the countries as Australia and New Zealand start offering visas to students. Kanwar Bikram Chabal, president of the IELTS Centres Owners Association who runs KBC International Centre near Khalsa College said, “The students are not coming for coaching due to two reasons. Firstly as IELTS score is valid for two years only, they do not