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Steps to clip mushrooming coaching centres

BISHAWJIT DAS
With admissions for schools and universities round the corner, thousands of students are rushing to coaching centres to prepare themselves to appear for these tests. But on the other hand the government is planning to take steps against the coaching centres that have been mushrooming over a period of time.
The ministry recently investigated into the copying habit and large numbers of failures in public examinations. Finding that coaching centres have become substitutes for schools and colleges, the government decided to take action to stop these centres and put these institutions in order.
The government will bar teachers from engaging themselves in the coaching and private tutoring business. Transfer of teachers who have completed eight years of service in city schools to villages and drawing up an academic calendar will be other measures taken. These will be implemented consecutively within a year, said sources in the education ministry.
Steps would be taken to ban the circulation and sale of notebooks of classes one to eight. The education ministry would frame a law on this matter and is presently drawing up a
draft, sources said.
It was also revealed that teachers do not take classes and exams regularly during the academic sessions. The insincerity shown by these teachers compel students to rush to houses of famed teachers for private tutoring and thus depend on tutoring and coaching centres.
The ministry is also investigating teachers engaged with coaching centres. Once identified, the ministry would issue letters prohibiting their involvement in coaching, and if continued they would be punished.
When the coaching centres are barred, the sale and publication of notebooks will stop, officials believe. Ministry would forbid sellers and publishers from selling or publishing notebooks. They would too, be punished if the order is not followed.
The ministry would also investigate the teachers who engage themselves in writing guides and notebooks in their pseudonyms. They would also be punished after identification.
On the contrary, a large number of coaching centres in the capital prepares thousands of students for school, college and university admissions, as well as public examinations.
"The necessity of coaching centres is essential in the present system and situation of education," said an
owner of a coaching centre.
"We are not in a position to prepare ourselves for the university admission since we have no idea about the admission systems of different universities," said Taposh, said a student at a coaching centre.
There are specialised coaching centres that cater to different sectors of university admission. "You cannot stop coaching centres even if laws are enforced against them. These have developed and rooted themselves so deeply in the society that no one can
deny their necessity," said owner of another coaching centre."
"If the total educational system can not be changed, the coaching centres will remain as it is, and the laws may only change the present form of coaching business".