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08/09/25 21:55 PM IST

Rajasthan’s coaching centre Bill

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  • The Rajasthan Assembly this week passed a Bill to regulate the coaching centre industry in the state, and to “create a healthier and more supportive environment” for students to pursue “their academic and professional goals”.
Rajasthan Coaching Centres (Control and Regulation) Bill, 2025
  • The Rajasthan Coaching Centres (Control and Regulation) Bill, 2025, passed recently, makes provisions for the registration, control, and regulation of coaching centres, and to determine the minimum standards and requirements for their registration.
  • It seeks to “take care of interests of students [in coaching centres] and provide them career guidance and psychological counselling for mental well-being,… take appropriate measures to provide security and reduce [their] stress…and…[ensure their] holistic development…in preparation of different competitive examinations…”.
  • The Bill is described as “a decisive step to curb the commercialization of coaching institutes and [to] ensure that they operate within a framework prioritizing the well-being and success of students”.
Major provisions 
  • The proposed law will be enforced by a Rajasthan Coaching Centres (Control and Regulation) Authority, which will have senior Education and police officials, a psychiatrist, and representatives of coaching centres and parents’ bodies.
  • Committees at the district level will have the district magistrate, superintendent of police, and chief medical and health officer among their members.
  • The district authority will ensure the registration of coaching centres and their compliance with the law, and the setting up of grievance redressal cells.
  • The district committees will also oversee various aspects of the functioning of the coaching centres, including the way in which fees are charged, complaints are dealt with, and teaching is carried out.
  • Coaching centres are required to apply for registration within three months of the Act coming into force.
  • Eligibility conditions include having a physical area of not less than 1 sq metre per student, engaging tutors with at least a graduate degree, and not making “misleading promises or guarantee of rank or good marks”.
  • They must have a system of counselling, a website with updated details including the qualifications of tutors, hostel facilities, policy on fees, and data on success rates. Students and teachers must have weekly days off, and coaching must not exceed five hours in a day.
  • Violations will attract fines of Rs 50,000 in the first instance, and Rs 2 lakh for a second offence. Subsequent violations could lead to a cancellation of registration. In an earlier version of the Bill, penalties for the first and second violations were Rs 2 lakh and Rs 5 lakh respectively.
  • The proposed law will cover coaching centres with more than 100 students; the previous version of the Bill was applicable to centres with 50 students.
Criticisms 
  • The criticisms of the Bill included its alleged failure to adequately address the problem of suicides and its officials-heavy nature that could promote red-tapism and inspector raj.
  • There were apprehensions that the Bill would adversely impact smaller coaching centres, and force coaching centres out of the state, adversely impacting the economy of Kota.
  • Not included the provision of- no coaching centre shall enroll a student below the age of 16 years”.
  • The  Bill appears intended to protect coaching institutes rather than students.
  • They repeated the criticism that the Bill does not do enough to address the increase in suicides, and fails to make psychological or career counselling mandatory.
  • They again flagged the disregarding of the central guidelines.
Source- Indian Express 

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