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Forum For Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination | |
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| Formation | 1992; 32 years ago (1992) |
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| Founder | Dinesh Goel |
| Type | Coaching institute |
| Headquarters | FIITJEE House, 29-A, Kalu Sarai Rd, Vijay Mandal Enclave, Kalu Sarai, South Delhi, Delhi - 110016, India |
Region served | India, Bahrain , Qatar |
| Services | Coaching institute for IIT-JEE and various engineering entrance examination |
Official language | English |
Key people | DK Goel (Founder) |
Staff | 3,200+ |
| Website | fiitjee.com |
FIITJEE is a coaching institute based in India primarily for competitive exams. FIITJEE was by Dinesh Kumar Goel in 1992. It offers courses for students in grades 6-12 aspiring to appear in numerous competitive exams [1] and other examinations.[2]
DK Goel, a Mechanical Engineering Graduate from IIT Delhi, founded FIITJEE in 1992.[3] FIITJEE offers coaching for students aiming for admissions into IITs and NITs in India as well as students aiming for various science olympiads. FIITJEE Limited was incorporated on 13 October 1997 as public company limited by shares.
The 2009 IIT-JEE topper Nitin Jain who trained for his exams at FIITJEE said that he had been coerced into writing a letter of recommendation, which they (FIITJEE) had published in their advertisements. The institute opened a website where they published answers in the name of Jain. He and his father accused FIITJEE and another cram school, "Aakash", for "misusing" Jain's name "for commercial interest". Jain clarified that he had never attended the Aakash Institute. The Union Ministry for Human Resource Development referred the matter for an investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation. FIITJEE denied the allegations.[4]
Jain later wrote in his book The Secret of My Success that he was "subtly pressurised" and "cajoled into writing the letter, and most of it was not true." FIITJEE moved the Delhi High Court, claiming that parts of the book were "defamatory, offensive and fallacious", seeking a permanent injunction on the book's publication. The High Court dismissed the appeal, citing that the institute needed to prove that what the writer had published in his book was wrong. Jain and his father said that Nitin had received a lesser amount under the institute's Talent Reward Exam than what the institute claimed, and that too after several rounds of the institute's office.[5]
FIITJEE has faced several cases in Consumer Courts for not returning the fees paid by students when they quit the institute. In one such case in April 2017, the Hyderabad district consumer court directed FIITJEE to return 75% of the fees paid upfront and pay compensation of ₹1lakh to parents.[6]ANagpur district forum ruled out that coaching classes taking advance fees was a discrepancy. They directed FIITJEE to refund ₹75,000 to a student who had enrolled in a 4-year program but left it following the lack of discipline and a biology teacher for two years.[7]
On 6 November 2017, the Paradise Papers revealed that 19,52,907 shares of FIITJEE valued at ₹36crore were sold by QLearn company of MauritiustoMumbai's Ambit Group in July 2015. QLearn is a subsidiary of Qatari firm Qinvest and the Ambit Group is one of its investors.[8]
On July 12th, 2024. Two centres of FIITJEE located in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad were shut down abruptly following disputes. The parents of affected students filed police cases against the Institute at Chinchwad Poice Station accusing the Institute of duping them of laks of rupees.[9][10]
