The center recently announced a set of guidelines for operating coaching centers in the country and emphasized the need to regulate the industry. Key reasons for this, the center says, are instances of unfortunate deaths resulting from suicides, hazardous settings from which some of these classes operate, high amounts of fees they collect from students, and other malpractice being adopted by them.
Key Reasons Why Government Wants to Regulate Coaching Centre
- The number of unregulated private coaching centers in the country continues to grow in the absence of any laid down policy or regulation. Instances of such centers charge exorbitant fees from students.
- In 2023, and in Kota alone – a major coaching hub for these two undergraduate-level entrance examinations – 26 young aspirants took the extreme step. The 26 deaths were the highest number of suicides in Kota in a calendar year since 2015.
- The center said there can be no discrimination in the coaching institutes based on religion, race, caste, sex, place of birth, and descent.
- Being a supporter of positive mental health as a goal and an integral part of students’ journey at every step.
- We generally admit our children to coaching centers if it fulfills our children’s academic purpose and, of course, if they charge fair and reasonable fees.
Infrastructure Requirements
In another incident of June last year, 61 students were injured while trying to escape a four-story commercial building when a fire on the ground floor a little after 12pm filled the upper storeys with smoke in north Delhi’s Mukherjee Nagar.
A minimum of one square meter area has to be allocated to each student during a class, and centre buildings have to adhere to fire safety codes, building safety codes and other standards, the ministry said.
Registration is now a must for coaching centres. The ones lacking it must complete the due process within three months.