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    Inside ed-tech companies' suddenly rising focus on coaching for government jobs

    Many players have in the past year started offering content in vernacular languages like Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Oriya and Bengali.

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    Companies focusing exclusively on government jobs said their revenues had grown around 1-4x in the last year, on the back of both job market uncertainty, as well as increased adoption of online mode of learning due to Covid-19 and lockdowns that forced local tuition centres to shut.

    Ed-tech companies, including giants such as Unacademy, are increasingly focusing on test preparation for government jobs that are attracting more candidates as uncertainty continues in the private sector.While Byju's only offers test prep for the UPSC exam, Unacademy has over 20 exams in its offerings. Last year in December, Unacademy acquired NeoStencil, which offers test-prep for several government exams.Earlier this year in February, UpGrad,
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