Explain policy to stop private coaching: HC
The High Court yesterday asked the government to explain in four weeks why its policy to stop “coaching business†should not be declared illegal.
The government on June 20 last year announced a policy to stop the "coaching business" of teachers by preventing them from giving private tuition to students of their own institutions.
The "Policy-2012 to stop teachers from doing coaching business in educational institutions" also prohibits teachers of government and non-government schools, colleges and madrasas from giving private tuition during school hours.
Yesterday, a HC bench came up with the following a writ petition jointly filed by five guardians of some students challenging the legality of the policy.
The petition was filed on January 27 saying that by formulating the policy, the government has forced them to send their children to commercial centres and to unregulated, untrained and less qualified teachers.
Secretaries concerned to the Prime Minister's Secretariat, parliament, and cabinet and the ministries of education and law have been made respondents to the rule.
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