A private coaching centre hub in Hyderabad has taken social media by surprise after visuals emerged of a street full of multistorey covered almost completely in posters and banners.
Sitting smack in the middle of the bustling city, Ameerpet has also been called the OG (original) technical education centre.
"This is the OG Ameerpet in Hyderabad. Here they teach from data science courses to laptop repair courses, you name it, in Ameerpet, we also have courses to teach more courses," X user and startup founder Akshay Narisetti, who hails from the region, wrote sharing the video.
While several social media users seemed surprised, some revealed that the private coaching centre hub also had a nickname -- USA (United States of Ameerpet). A few others shared their experiences with the place and agreed with Narisetti that Ameerpet developed as a coaching hub and gained immense popularity even before Kota in Rajasthan gained fame for its coaching institutes for engineering and medical entrance examinations.
"Nostalgia. I used to stay here in 90s, it was full of institutes even then, learned a lot of coding and worked too. Of course, the mad rush to go and settle in the US was common in all," commented X user Sagi (@73sagi_sagi). "Ameerpet is the Kota for professionals," added SDM
(@sudhamjayanthi).
"My Pinni (aunt) learned Java from Ameerpet when she visited India, and she worked in companies like Oracle, Teradata, and now in VMWare. Ameerpet is the OG!" wrote user Chandrabhatta Sriram (@sriram68276699) while user Ajay (@Ajaychennai2) added, "Was there for a project. Probably has more classes being conducted than any other such place in India. They start early almost 5 am sometimes."
Some, however, highlighted the disadvantages of studying at Ameerpet.
"They have been there for the last 25 years. Every one of them are crash courses, and they just dump course info for you to practice alone at your place. Earlier, there were few institutions with seating capacities for 150 members per course. SAP/Oracle used to have packed classrooms 24x6," said Divaker V Vittal (@divaker01).
A report published by the Times of India in 2019 also highlighted that the hundreds of technical and skill development institutes in the area operated out of cramped spaces, paying little or no regard to safety norms.
Most of the buildings had a single narrow staircase leading to each floor and none of them had even the most basic fire safety equipment: a fire extinguisher.
The classrooms had no provision for any ventilation and they would often be filled more than its capacity. The publication stated that if a classroom was built for 20 students, often 40 students are spotted in it.
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