The day we wipe out the need for coaching classes we will have succeeded in Educating Children.

Frame rules for coaching classes, HC tells state

Mumbai: The Bombay high court has asked the Maharashtra government to frame rules for mushrooming coaching classes that operate in every part of the city.
Hearing a PIL filed by the NGO, Forum for Fairness in Education, against the commercialisation of education by coaching classes, a division bench of justices Bilal Nazki and Sharad Bobde has given the government four weeks’ time to file an affidavit setting forth its stand on the issue.
The petition claimed that the coaching class network was a state-wide racket in which students were charged 20 times the fees, levied by their schools and colleges.
Many of the instructors teaching at the coaching classes were drawn from the faculty of schools and colleges in violation of rules, it said. The classes also induct paper setters who leak question papers to the students who attend such classes, alleged the petitioner Bhagwanji Raiyani. He added that such classes are a purely commercial business and should be allowed to operate only in commercial zones. TNN