We started our journey of guiding aspirants in 2012, when we founded ForumIAS.com.<\/p>\n
We are completely boot-strapped, self-funded, and are NOT owned by a Chinese company.<\/p>\n
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We take great efforts in building a community for Civil Services preparation<\/a> on our free platform forumias.com. We continue to believe in peer learning.<\/p>\n And we put even greater efforts in making the Academy a serious, academically oriented, rigorous training organization that gives value to its students, not just free<\/em> stuff.<\/p>\n We are sometimes strict with our students, make them wake up at 7AM, so that they develop the discipline to clear<\/em> this exam.<\/p>\n We don\u2019t<\/em> (and won\u2019t) do everything for free.<\/p>\n Here is why<\/p>\n Q.47) If a commodity is provided free to the public by the Government, then<\/p>\n (a) the opportunity cost is zero. Source : Civil Services Preliminary Examination, 2018 | Correct Answer as per the Official UPSC key : [C]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n We spend everything that we earn on delivering services to our students, keeping a small margin.<\/p>\n We have been there since We will always focus on doing things that help people succeed<\/em>.<\/p>\n And we\u2019ll bank on your word of mouth support for our growth.<\/p>\n We are an academic institute first, a technology company second, a knowledge and social media company third, and we\u2019ll never<\/em> be an advertising\u00a0 company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We started our journey of guiding aspirants in 2012, when we founded ForumIAS.com. We are completely boot-strapped, self-funded, and are NOT owned by a Chinese company. We try to do good work, help people and create a sustainable business where our students find value in things we do. We take great efforts in building a… Continue reading Our Philosophy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-63995","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n(b) the opportunity cost is ignored.
\n(c) the opportunity cost is transferred from the consumers of the product to the tax-paying public.
\n(d) the opportunity cost is transferred from the consumers of the product to the Government.<\/p>\n8<\/del> 9<\/del> 10 11 12<\/del> 13 years now, and we have delivered results<\/a>.<\/p>\n