Of guidebooks
We've talked a lot about the guidebooks menace so far; we've talked and written a lot on the mushrooming coaching centres and their activities in the name of inculcating “knowledge” to the students at large. Yet, very unfortunately, we haven't been able to stop the “guidebook business” in the open perimeter of the institutions and beyond --- they are being printed and sold out to the students. It is unfortunate because most of the guidebooks, as it has been reported frequently, are full of mistakes, haphazard organisation of ideas, and most tragically, misleading. Despite the government's ban on the guidebooks they are on the open platter in the markets for the education pursuers.
Yet again, the danger is that there are groups of syndicates interlinked into the businessprinting press, coaching centres and other hawk-eyed money mongers are in league together in their endeavour.
Now that coaching centres have become “a must” to a great extent, the government should devise a compact plan to bring them into its monitoring regarding the study-ingredients and other aspects . Most importantly, however, the government has to put a stern check on the tax evasion of those “thick-wallet” sub-institutions --- they have to pay tax in accordance with their accumulated income. Through such a transparent interaction we only can guarantee a more-or-less good and workable platform for our students---- coaching centres will come under the continual vigil of the ministry of education and the other institutions like Income Tax and others concerned.
Last but not the least, have we ever taken notice of some other money making institutions that work under a shadow line of rendering foreign education counselling, and some other activities like teaching ELT, GRE, and more dangerously, some other incorrigible or obscure titles that they claim to be equivalent to degrees likeHSC, BSC and some other public examinations and thus beguile and betray the aspirant students to their last farthing that also come from their family-wallets? And that they also evade a huge amount of income tax, least to mention that they do all this mischief with all false promises and hope under yet more false “NAMES” for their mini-institutions? And that they use the high-sounding names or the names like “ …school and college” without any permission from the ministry of education?! Ah, a huge task is left to be done --- the quicker the better.
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