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If you are asked that despite being a free citizen of a free country, during the Covid period, how were your fundamental rights restricted and you were forced to wear a mask, or how was a Covid positive board put up outside your house? Most people will say that this can be done in public interest, but UPSC or MPPSC will not be satisfied with such an answer. The correct answer would be that Article 21 of the Constitution of India which guarantees the fundamental right to security of life and personal liberty provides in the same article that a person can be deprived of this right according to the procedure established by law, and it was only due to one such law i.e. Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, that restrictions could be imposed during the Covid period. The next question then would be what is law? The most likely answer would be that the Government can make some rules for everyone to follow and those rules are law. But the answer that UPSC or MPPSC is expecting is that law refers to a system of rules and regulations which are passed by the Parliament or State Legislature as per their respective jurisdiction. There is a difference between the Government and the Legislature. Government can bring an ordinance but it remains valid only for a prescribed time period.

Here, an attempt is being made to explain that despite knowing a lot, not knowing just a few things or not knowing the basics becomes the reason for failure in examinations like UPSC or MPPSC. This difference between “correct knowledge” and “more knowledge”- this additional basic “little knowledge”- is the key to success in such exams. And, there are not many people around possessing this additional basic “little knowledge”. An experienced IAS officer, on account of leaning from his/ her Job life, experience with writing drafts of Acts/ Rules and works in public interest etc possesses this additional, basic “little knowledge”, A glimpse of this, can be seen in the above example, where, important information on the subjects of Fundamental Rights, Law/ Rules, Legislature etc was effortlessly explained, using an incident which affected our lives profoundly – the Covid period. Similarly, there will be many subjects of UPSC/MPPSC in which this wealth of additional basic “little knowledge” can be utilised to prepare for such difficult exams.

This wealth of “little knowledge” available with an experienced IAS officer can become the precious difference between failure and success for UPSC/ MPPSC exams. In this context far, let’s see the UPSC notification for this year (2024) itself, published on 14 February 2024 for the UPSC Civil Services Examination, which reads:

“The main Examination is intended to assess the overall intellectual traits and depth of understanding of candidates rather than merely the range of their information and memory. The nature and standard of questions in the General Studies papers (Paper II to Paper V) will be such that a well-educated person will be able to answer them without any specialized study. The questions will be such as to test a candidate’s general awareness of a variety of subjects, which will have relevance for a career in Civil Services. The questions are likely to test the candidate’s basic understanding of all relevant issues, and ability to analyze, and take a view on conflicting socio-economic goals, objectives and demands. The candidates must give relevant, meaningful and succinct answers.”
(The “Career in Civil Services” portion has not been bolded and underlined in the UPSC notification).

There is a very important portion above that “….The questions will be such that they will be related to career in civil services…”. If this sentence is understood keeping in mind the above example of COVID, it stands to reason that an experienced IAS officer will be best able to fulfil this aspect of the UPSC requirement. Thus, this officer would be best suited to develop the teaching material, train the faculty and guide the coaching institute.

Keeping this concept in mind, HAJELA’S IAS is using Prateek Hajela, a retired IAS officer as a full-time mentor, full-time resource and course director.

And if this education is imparted in Hindi, along with English, people here will definitely be benefitted more. Hajela’s IAS follows a fully bilingual approach with all learning and content being developed in both Hindi and English.

Hajela’s IAS content the correct result-oriented and is for 360-degree development of the aspirant. To provide training to the faculty teaching the students is the USP (Unique Selling Point) of Hajela’s IAS. Training or coaching is not limited to textbooks, guides, notes but will have an optimal mix of lectures, images, animations, videos, case studies, group discussions and exercises. Hajela’s IAS emphasizes on concept and fundamentals-based learning, ensuring correlation with daily life events for easy and quick understanding of the subject matter. Although the examinations (UPSC CSE & MPPSC CSE) follow the three stages of Preliminary, Written Mains and Main Interview, Hajela’s IAS believes that any preparation requires consolidated study avoiding any division in the three stages. Similarly, Hajela’s IAS belives that the foundation preparation for UPSC and MPPSC examinations is very similar.

By adopting the above-mentioned strategy, Hajela’s IAS is striving to become the coaching best centre by getting the highest number of selections in the country.

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