Bihar to form law to curb private coaching centres

Patna/Biharsharif: As students protest against private coaching institutes spread across Bihar, the state government on Thursday announced that it would enact a legislation to regulate their functioning.

“I have asked the state HRD department officials to burn the midnight oil to prepare a draft in consultation with the experts to enact a law for the purpose,” chief minister Nitish Kumar said after a high-level meeting.

HRD principal secretary Anjani Singh said the new law would provide for registration of all such coaching institutes and strict monitoring of quality of education and fee structure. The draft was likely to be tabled in the coming budget session of the state legislature.

“This will be the first law of its kind that a state will be enacting to protect the interests of both the coaching institutes and students,” Singh said.

Students went on the rampage against the management of coaching institutes for “cheating” them by not completing the courses within a stipulated time and demanded that such institutes should be regulated. They blocked roads, burnt tyres and shouted slogans against the coaching institutes across the state, sending the authorities into a tizzy. Some students took to the streets in Nalanada, Darbhanga, Siwan, Chapra, Muzaffarpur, and Vaishali districts on Thursday, blocking roads and burning tyres to press their demand. AGENCIES