ANANTNAG: None of the 23 tuition centres, imparting coaching to thousands of students, in this southern district is registered with the education department.
Officials say that the tuition centers in Anantnag district witnessed mushroom growth in the past couple of years and all of them are functioning illegally. These tuition centres face flak due to host of issues, top among them: illegal profiteering, lack of discipline, poor infrastructure and odd timings.
Neither are these illegally run centres registered with State’s education department nor do they comply with the conditions laid down in J&K Regulation of Private Tuition Rules of 2010.
Concerned parents told Kashmir Observer that the tuition centers have resorted to illegal profiteering eversince they began doing what they termed as business of education.
These acts, they allege are being done under the patronage of administration.
Parents demanded separate class rooms for female students, proper infrastructure and right timings. “In a single classroom which has intake capacity of 30 students they forcefully accommodate triple the number, a student Nadeem Wani of Wanihama said adding students are forced to attend classes from 7:00 am in this winter which is sheer injustice.”
Chief Education Officer, Anantnag, Ghulam Rasool Shah while talking to Kashmir Observer acknowledged that none of the tuition centers running in Anantnag district have registered
their centers with the department. No one has registered their center as they are not fulfilling the conditions laid down in J&K Regulation of Private Tuition Rules of 2010.”
He also said that he has directed all the tuition centers to get their centers registered with State’s education department and comply with the conditions laid down in J&K Regulation of Private Tuition Rules of 2010 for running coaching classes within one week or face appropriate legal action, including the closure of such centers.
“Those government teachers and lectures violating the norms by running these centers will be dealt according to law.” CEO assured.
Pertinently, the High Court had also ordered the closure of all unregistered coaching centers in the valley and constituted a panel headed by Division Commissioner.
The committee, framed under rules of Jammu and Kashmir Regulation of Private Tuition Centers 2010, was formed following a PIL that sought court’s intervention in the regulation of private coaching classes.
