Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Dec 7: Even though the Government framed regulations to check private coaching centres in the State, yet these centres flout norms by charging hefty fees from students in Kashmir valley.
Over 550 coaching centres are operating in Kashmir division, including Ladakh, and these mushrooming coaching centres “train” students for entrance exams to medical and engineering colleges also “promise” to complete BOSE syllabus of Classes 11 and 12 in a “targeted time.”
But, they charge huge fees from students ranging between Rs 20, 000 to Rs 30,000 for normal course, and additional fees for additional subject.
Excelsior spoke to four coaching centres over phone in the guise of students and the “managers” said they charge above Rs 15,000 which, they said, can be “relaxed” once a student takes admission in the centre.
In April 2010, after facing public wrath for not regulating coaching centres in the Valley, the Government passed an order Jammu and Kashmir Regulation of Private Tuition Centre Rules, 2010 vide order No: 435-Edi of 2010 dated April 30, 2010 to “regulate” the functioning of coaching centres in the State.
But, three years on, not a single coaching centre has been registered which was revealed by the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah in the Assembly in September this year.
Director School Education Mir Tariq Ali said only those coaching centres would be recognized which adhere by the order.
“Each coaching centre should have a 1:30 student-teacher ratio besides other prescribed facilities. We have constituted a team of experts that is visiting coaching centres to check whether they are following the regulations,” Mir said.
GN Var, chairman of Coaching Centres Association, said fee could be maintained after the centres are registered.
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