Regulation Of Indian Coaching Centers - Need Of The Hour

The Ministry of Education ("Ministry"), Government of India, has recently released the much-debated Guidelines for Regulation of Coaching Centers ("Guidelines") for consideration by the States/UTs. These Guidelines are in the form of model guidelines to be adopted by the State/UT governments by way of appropriate legal framework to regulate the coaching centers ("CC") within their jurisdictions (even though education is a subject matter of the concurrent list of the Constitution of India).

Background

The Guidelines have been issued in view of the rising number of unregulated coaching institutes charging exorbitant fees from students, unreasonably long coaching hours forcing students to leave schools and enroll with dummy schools, undue pressure, and stress on students (sometimes resulting in unfortunate student suicides), lack of reasonable infrastructure, fire accidents and other malpractices.