JAIPUR: The Rajasthan government has formed a state-level committee to make suggestions about the regulation and control of fast growing coaching institutes in Rajasthan. This committee will also suggest measures to be taken to reduce the stress of children studying in coaching institutes.
Kota in Rajasthan is known as a coaching city throughout the country. Children from all over the country come to coaching for admission in medical and engineering. In Kota alone, about two lakh children are studying in different coaching institutes.
However, along with coaching, the quota also comes in the case of suicides of these children. Along with Kota, coaching institutes are also increasing in Rajasthan, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Sikar, Gangapurcity of Sawai Madhopur, Jhunjhunu and some other cities. In these cities, in addition to medical and engineering, preparations are made for admission in courses like Law, Management, CA, CS. Apart from this, coaching institutes are also preparing for civil services and other government recruitment.
The Rajasthan government is looking at coaching as a very promising business, as these coaching institutes have provided direct and indirect employment to about five lakh people in Rajasthan. There are no rules applicable to coaching institutes in Rajasthan right now.
The local district administration has fixed some guide lines in Kota, but they are also mostly about counseling and stress-free coaching of children. There is no rule or law. Any person seeing two rooms empty starts coaching there. Neither the educational qualifications of the coaching students are known nor the safety standards are taken care of in the institutes.
Apart from this, the operators of many coaching institutes have also been found to be making or messing up competitive examinations of government recruitments. In view of all these situations, the government now wants to make arrangements for control and regulation of coaching institutes. For this, on one hand, while the Urban Development Department has been asked to develop coaching hubs in cities, a committee has also been formed which will prepare and provide legal documents of control and regulation to the government.
Members of the committee The members nominated by the committee will visit other states and study the rules applicable to coaching institutes there. The committee will deliberate extensively and prepare a comprehensive legislative draft. Along with this, the committee will also give its suggestions for removing mental stress on the coaching institutes children. The discussion about the formation of such a committee was also done during the previous BJP government and the then Higher Education Minister had announced it in the Legislative Assembly, but the committee was not formed.
It is included in the committee-
The committee will consist of Amichand, District Collector of Kota and Sikar and Superintendent of Police, Superintendent of Psychiatry Center, Jaipur, Educationist of Bikaner. Additionally, Associate Professor of Lady Hardinge Medical College New Delhi, Dr. Shivprasad, child rights activist Yajnadatta Hada, education consultant National Child Rights Protection Commission Madhulika Sharma, Mahavir Hooda from the Impulse Coaching Institute of Sikar and representatives of the Regency quota, NGO Garden Care Jaipur, Tata Institute of Social working in the field of child psychology Science, Representative of Mumbai and Senior Joint Law Consultant of School Education Department Minister will also be members. Apart from these, the Advocate General or his representative, senior advocate Sudhir Gupta will be special invitees. The committee will be the Member Secretary, Government Deputy Secretary of School Education Department
