new delhi behind the glitz and glamour of shops selling designer clothes and jewellery at south extensioni market lie lanes peddling digital dreams to students through flex hoardings of educational institutes most of the boards advertise courses in digital multimedia animation graphics web designing digital marketing software development and foreign languagesthough their fees range between rs 1 and 2 lakh fire safety hardly seems to be the priority of such institutes narrow staircases no fire exits or provisions of fire safety a large number of such units are operating without following basic safety norms local residents allegedthere are two stretches in south extensioni that have gradually turned from residential areas to commercial coaching hubs coaching centres are concentrated behind the main market from the bengali sweets shops in eblock till khanna jewellers if a suratlike fire occurs here fire tenders wont be able to reach the area due to congestion alleged rk batra general secretary of the rwawhen toi spoke to students they complained of poor safety in the buildings mohammad kashif a student from jharkhand who has been taking coaching classes for the past six months said all the buildings have narrow staircases we have heard about the surat tragedy but there is hardly anything we can do we are here to study and get jobsanshu ranjan an animation student said most of the students here are from up jharkhand and bihar this is a hub of digital multimedia institutes safety measures are nonexistenteven though executives of many institutes argued that there were adequate safety features toi couldnt find any fire extinguishers or fire exits in the buildingscommercialisation of the area has led to decrease in overall quality of life for local residents they said crowding due to these centres has brought about excess garbage congestion mesh of wires noise and power overload however the misuse of master plan of delhi 2021 has escaped the attention of officialsthe spokesperson of south delhi municipal corporation said that coaching centres are not required to take any licence for operation as they dont come under the general trade licence regime of delhi municipal corporation act no comprehensive survey has been carried out to find out their numbers and such centres dont register themselves either the official addedchapter 15 of the master plan has prescribed a new layout plan of such areas however the entire area cannot be converted into a coaching hub a ratio between residential areas and commercial activities was to be fixed but the layout revision process was never initiated said a senior sdmc town planner