Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Dec 12: High Court has directed the Government to examine the report of Judges Committee formulated after supervising the working and functioning of coaching centres across the J&K so that effective orders be passed to them for adhering with the rules governing the field and court directions.
The Division Bench of Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey and Justice D S Thakur hearing the petition filed with the hope of regulating the working and functioning of the tuition centres, asked the UT Government through its appearing counsel to examine the report submitted by the appointed Judges Committee with regard to coaching centres.
The counsel appearing for petitioner has also been asked to examine the same in order to consider the matter for issuing effective directions to the authorities. The counsel informed the court that despite the rules and regulations governing the field are in place though owners of the centres are running their institutions at their will.
He submitted that there is no fixed fee structure followed by the coaching centres and whooping amount is being charged from the students for shortest courses. He further added that apart from Judges Committee there are two monitoring committees one each for Jammu and Srinagar comprising of Divisional Commissioner, Inspector General of Police and Director School Education but no effective measure are taken by both these monitoring committees to monitor the functioning of coaching centres.
” It is stated that neither the Government nor the coaching centres are complying with the regulations, notified by the Government from time to time, till the exercise has been undertaken by the court right from first hearing”, DB recorded in the order.
Petitioner also informed the court that though regulations are notified on the intervention of the court but the mushroom growth of Tuition Centres in Kashmir as also in Jammu division, are not running these Tuition Centres in tune with the mandate of the direction passed by this Court and the regulations.
He also submitted before the court that the report of Judges Committee which is in his possession reveals horrible picture of coaching centres as the said report show 99 percent of coaching centres are not following the rules of 2010.
On the other hand State counsel submitted that the Government is monitoring the functioning and working of coaching centres as the Government is inspecting the coaching centres regularly. Counsel representing the coaching centres informed the court that there are about 1200 coaching centres in both divisions. Court pointed out to him in case it was found these centres are not meeting with the requirement of regulations of 2010, Court will deal with them accordingly.
Petitioner counsel also submitted that in Jammu division almost 100 coaching centres found to be violated the rules and the authorities have limited to take action with them only with the issuance of show cause notices.
“In order to consider this matter for issuing effective directions, we request Counsel for the parties to assist the court on the next date of hearing and in the meanwhile, Registry shall make a compilation of all the documents on record/ compliance reports as also submit the report of the Judges Committee after doing necessary compilation” DB directed.
Trending Now
E-Paper
Follow our WhatsApp channel