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| Govt fails to monitor coaching centres | | Regular college staff taking classes | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Nov 16: Inspite of the repeated assurances by the Government to check the functioning and operation of various coaching / tuition centers in J&K state, the Government has miserably failed to fulfill its promise. The coaching centers which are operating in Srinagar have totally bypassed the orders passed by the Government on several occasions. The coaching centers were supposed to get registered but this too hasn't been done till date. The regular employees of Colleges ranging from Asst Prof's, Associate Professor's and even Professors are seen taking classes during office hours. Even at many places the Higher Secondary School lecturers are attending coaching centers during office hours and Government is a mute spectator.
Earlier, in the month of January this year after a female school teacher was attacked with acid in Srinagar, the J&K Government decided to tighten the noose around private coaching centres across the Srinagar city in a bid to "keep vigil on eve-teasing and complaints of harassment of girls."
Taking a serious note of the incident, the former Director School Education Kashmir Mohammad Shafi Rather had said that the private coaching centres won't be allowed to violate norms governing admissions and accommodation facilities.
The former Director had told a local Srinagar based English daily that Government was contemplating action against coaching centres lacking infrastructure and those where hundreds of students are made to sit in small rooms," but still this practice hasn't stopped.
The Government had given 15 days time to coaching centres in January this year to get their registration/permission formalities completed under the Jammu and Kashmir Regulation of Private Tuition Centre (Rules 2010), failing which action was supposed to be initiated against the defaulters but all these rules are being bypassed by the coaching centres and Government is a mute spectator, said a parent Mohammad Ameen Mir from Chanapora, Srinagar.
The Director School Education Kashmir had issued a direction to coaching centres vide Government Order No 435/Edu of 2010, directing all the private tuition centres to get the registration/permission from the competent authority to continue their operations, failing which appropriate action will be taken against them. "The application for permission /registration must be accompanied with all the notifications displaying monthly tuition fee charged from students and also the notification displaying particulars of its faculty members including their qualification and experience.
The order further reads that "The documents related to infrastructure and other facilities i.e. minimum area/space of 9 sq feet per candidate, separate waiting room, separate drinking water facilities for female candidates, electricity, heating/cooling arrangements in classrooms /waiting halls should in place. If any education agency/tuition centre/coaching center fails to seek permission/registration within the stipulated time, it shall be liable for appropriate action under rules."
The order has also made it clear that the coaching centres would not be allowed to operate during the day when schools remain functional.
But all these guidelines are restricted only to papers. In the scorching heat the students are bunched in small rooms with no cooling facilities. Even during winters there are no heating arrangements as well. "There are hundreds of coaching centres where hundreds of students are accommodated in small rooms. This is a huge nuisance and a cause of concern," said Fayaz Ahmad , a parent of a student.
During 2010, then Deputy Commissioner of Srinagar during his visit to one of the coaching centres found that about 250 students were given lecture in a small room in Karan Nagar area and each class lasted for just 30-40 minutes. During his interaction with the students, he learnt that each student paid Rs 4,500 as tuition fee. It was only after that incident that Mehraj Ahmad Kakroo former DC Srinagar directed all coaching centres to get registration done but some people filed litigation against it and the process could not be completed.
The coaching centres in Srinagar, Baramulla, Anantnag etc have become hub of immoral activities. The vagabonds and ruffians can be seen roaming freely outsides these places especially in Parraypora area of Srinagar city and the police too has failed to check this menace. The outside youth come to these coaching centres and start eve teasing female students. |
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