Though Patna has many reputed teachers and institutes to coach students for engineering and medical tests––a couple of them even for CAT, PO and BPSC––there is now hardly any good one for the UPSC. After the closure of the East and West Academy sometimes back there is hardly any environment left in the state capital for Civil Service coaching.
Before the creation of Jharkhand in 2000 Ranchi too used to have a few good teachers and institutes, which used to produce Civil Servants. But now all that is history.
While quite a few teachers blame the state government for the sharp decline in the environment in colleges and universities in Bihar there are many such as Professor Balram Tiwari of Department of Hindi, Patna University who, while talking to the media recently, went on record to hold poor law and order situation responsible for it. This had forced many good teachers of Bihar to move out. The aspirants naturally followed them. This was the argument.
The biggest irony is that all these are happening at the time of information explosion, when computer has emerged as an important source to help civil servant aspirants. With a little bit of brush up it would have been enough for the aspirant to qualify.
So if in 1980s and 1990s, or even earlier, aspirants living in relatively small towns like Gaya, Dhanbad, Bokaro etc (the last two are now in Jharkhand) can go and prepare for the Civil Servant examination today hardly anyone would take such risk.
Apart from sharp fall in quality teacher, poor knowledge of English, law and order problem it is the mind-set which is changing. Now more and more students think that it is better to move out to big metropolitan cities to crack Civil Service exams. That was not the case in the past.
However, there are still a few teachers, for example, of Hindi who are quite reputed and students with Hindi as optional paper like to take tuition from them. But many students of Bihar still have problem with English and General Studies for which they have no good techer.
Law and order and poor quality of education may be problems. But then these problems should have affected engineering, medical, management coaching too as the extortionists charge big money from them as well.
Another important aspect, which one tends to ignore is that unlike in the past when the maximum age for appearing in exam was 26, now aspirants can sit till the age of 30. So now many graduates, especially from engineering colleges, prefer to earn a couple of years either in any MNC or take classes in coaching institute and side by side make preparation for Civil Service examination.
With own money in possession they take leave, move to Delhi or any other place and appear in UPSC with much more preparation. This phenomenon has forced other aspirants too to move to better centres. Thus the relatively small coaching centres like the one in Patna gradually ceased to exist.

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