NOIDA: Sahil had cleared his Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) prelims in 2020. Merit wasn’t his problem. He needed money to prepare for the mains.
The 22-year-old had come all the way from Jind in Haryana in 2020 to Delhi’s Mukherjee Nagar, among the lakhs who base themselves in the capital each year to crack the fiercely competitive exams, but of whom less than 1% make the cut. Nevertheless, the ecosystem of coaching centres, teachers and a peer group keeps drawing in the numbers.
