Institute file
Plutus IAS
- Registered as
- Plutus IAS
- Headquarters
- New Delhi (Karol Bagh)
- Exams
- UPSC Civil Services
Penalised ₹3 lakh by CCPA in November 2024 for misleading advertising, after an earlier notice in October 2023. Its published policy is among the most restrictive we found: no refund on classroom, hybrid or live-online fees, with a minimum 25% deduction even to change course.
Section 01
The arithmetic
Every criterion starts at 100. Below is each point deducted, the published rule that triggered it, and the document it came from. Nothing here is a judgement call.
Regulatory Standing
65/100Orders, penalties and findings recorded against the institute by a regulator.
Advertising Integrity
60/100Whether a regulator has found the institute's advertising to be misleading.
Disclosure
Not assessedWhether the institute discloses what its advertised successful candidates actually paid for.
No public record on file touches this criterion, so we do not score it. This is deliberately not the same as a pass.
Refund Policy
20/100How the institute's own published refund policy compares to the national standard.
Service Delivery
Not assessedDocumented failures to deliver the teaching students actually paid for.
No public record on file touches this criterion, so we do not score it. This is deliberately not the same as a pass.
Grievance Redressal
Not assessedDocumented conduct when enrolled students raise complaints or ask for refunds.
No public record on file touches this criterion, so we do not score it. This is deliberately not the same as a pass.
Overall score is the mean of the 3 assessed criteria, rounded. Read the full methodology →
Section 02
The public record
Each document below is linked to its source. This is the entire evidentiary basis for the grade above — there is nothing else behind it.
- 01Regulatory orderAnnounced 13 November 2024
CCPA imposes ₹3 lakh penalty for misleading advertising
CCPA imposed a penalty of ₹3,00,000 on Plutus IAS as part of its action against misleading advertising in the coaching sector, announced on 13 November 2024 with the institute-by-institute breakdown published the following day. This is separate from, and later than, the October 2023 notice recorded below.
Points this document deducted (2)
- standing — Confirmed regulatory penalty order on record-35
- ads — Regulator found the advertisement misleading-40
- 02Regulatory orderReported 30 October 2023
CCPA notice issued in the October 2023 round — a notice, not a penalty
Plutus IAS was one of the institutes issued a CCPA notice in the October 2023 action against IAS coaching centres. A notice is not a penalty and carries no finding of wrongdoing, so it deducts nothing here. It is recorded only because the sequence matters: the penalty above came later and separately.
SourcesNewslaundry ↗Points this document deducted (0)
- 03Published policyPolicy effective 4 June 2026; retrieved 28 July 2026
Published policy: no refund on any course, 25% minimum deduction to change
The published refund policy states that fees for classroom, hybrid and live-online courses are non-refundable, and applies a minimum 25% deduction even where a student is permitted to change course. The Ministry of Education's January 2024 guidelines require a pro-rata refund within 10 days where a student leaves mid-course.
SourcesPlutus IAS — Refund Policy ↗Points this document deducted (2)
- refund — Published policy states fees are non-refundable-60
- refund — Published deduction on exit or course change exceeds 10% of fees-20
Section 03
Their policy vs the national standard
What Plutus IAS publishes
“Fees once paid for classroom, hybrid or live online courses are non-refundable under any circumstances.”
The published refund policy applies a blanket no-refund rule across classroom, hybrid and live-online courses, and imposes a minimum 25% deduction even where a course change is permitted.
Read their policy ↗Retrieved 2026-07-28
What the national standard says
Where a student has paid the fee in full and leaves the course in the middle of the prescribed period, the fee for the remaining period is to be refunded on a pro-rata basis within 10 days — including hostel and mess fees, where those were paid.
Guidelines for Regulation of Coaching Centres, 2024, Ministry of Education, Government of India, January 2024. Summarised from the guidelines rather than quoted verbatim. Source ↗
These are national guidelines that states are asked to adopt; they are not by themselves a penal statute. The enforceable route for an individual student is the Consumer Protection Act, 2019 — deficiency in service and unfair trade practice — through the National Consumer Helpline and the Consumer Commissions.
Section 04
What students say
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