Consumer protection watchdog warns coaching centres against misleading ads ahead of IIT-JEE Main results
Press Trust of India | April 17, 2025 | 02:16 PM IST | 1 min read
The coaching centres must ensure their representations are 'accurate, clear, and free from misleading claims', as per an official statement.
Check your college admission chances based on your JEE Main percentile with the JEE Main 2026 College Predictor.
Try NowNEW DELHI: The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) on Thursday issued a stern warning to coaching centres to avoid misleading advertisements and unfair trade practices as IIT-JEE examination results approach. The consumer rights watchdog has advised coaching institutes to strictly follow the 2024 guidelines set for such entities.
JEE Main 2026 Session 2: Result Link | Final Answer Key
JEE Main 2026: College Predictor | Official Question Papers
Comprehensive Guide: IIT's | NIT's | IIIT's | Foreign Universities in India
Don't Miss: India's Best B.Tech Counsellors in your city - Book Your Seat
According to an official statement, coaching centres must ensure their representations are "accurate, clear, and free from misleading claims". The CCPA emphasised that advertisements should transparently disclose key details including students' names, ranks, course types, and whether courses were paid for. The authority has explicitly cautioned coaching centres against making "assurances of guaranteed success" and mandated that disclaimers be displayed prominently in the same font size as other important information.
Also read Education is ‘business’ today; parents link expensive JEE coaching, IIT fee hike to student suicides
The CCPA has already taken significant enforcement action in this sector, issuing 49 notices and imposing penalties totalling Rs 77.60 lakh on 24 coaching centres for violations. These centres have been directed to discontinue misleading advertisements and unfair trade practices. Previous CCPA actions have targeted coaching centres offering services for various competitive examinations, including UPSC CSE, IIT-JEE , NEET, RBI, and NABARD, among others.
Follow us for the latest education news on colleges and universities, admission, courses, exams, research, education policies, study abroad and more..
To get in touch, write to us at news@careers360.com.
Next Story
]Featured News
]- CISCE schools can continue to teach foreign languages as 3rd option: Board secretary
- BBAU Lucknow student’s death sparks protests against hostel food, curfew; proctor denies link
- Fees to social media-use: What NCAHP’s first ethics code for allied, healthcare professionals says
- NMC junks 150-seat MBBS cap, population rule; sets 10 km limit for medical college-hospital distance
- ‘Not just academic, but personal’: NSUT Delhi takes AI beyond BTech, across non-engineering courses
- AI judge, cyber law courses, scholarships: GNLU is revamping LLB degrees to make students courtroom-ready
- CBSE third language policy throws French, Spanish, German teachers across schools into crisis
- With CSE surge, these specialised BTech courses are vanishing from engineering colleges
- Govt school to Glasgow: NIT Agartala civil engineer wins Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship
- UGC allows state colleges to seek deemed-university status, become off-campus centres of other institutions