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Coaching centres must go from residential areas: SC

The Times of India, Mar 9, 2016

Dhananjay Mahapatra

The Supreme Court said coaching centres in residential areas were a nuisance to women and the elderly and must shift out to commercial premises or institutional areas. A bench of Chief Justice T S Thakur and Justice U U Lalit refused to give any relief to petitioner All Rajasthan Coaching Institutes Association, which had challenged the eviction order served on its members by Jaipur Development Authority, following a Rajasthan high court order banning functioning of tutorials illegally from residential colonies. "Morning and evening, youngsters come with bikes. Many loiter around, harassing women and old people. Coaching centres must shift out to commercial premises or institutional areas. We will not permit them in residential areas," the bench said. Appearing for the petitioner, senior advocate Kapil Sibal tried his best to get an interim stay on the eviction notice by arguing it was beyond the jurisdiction of the authority which had served the eviction notices on 118 coaching institutes operating from the Lal Kothi residential area in Jaipur. The bench was unimpressed and asked Sibal's client to respond to the eviction notice and move the court as and when the final order for vacating the premises in residential areas was passed by the authorities. The bench appeared firm against tutorials and coaching centres operating from residential areas.

"Why should these institutes be permitted to operate from residential areas and make lives of many miserable? These institutes create chaos in residential areas," it said. In the high court, petitioner Ghasiram had argued that these coaching centres illegally mushroomed in about 15 colonies in Lal Kothi in violation of norms which provide that no coaching centre can function in an area where the width of the road was less than 40 feet.

"Most of the coaching centres are functioning in violation of this rule. They have become a source of sound pollution and other civic problems," the petitioner had said in the high court. JDA had said, "Barring three-four coaching centres in Lal Kothi, almost every coaching centre violates government norms. There are norms such as 300 yard space for the centre, separate toilets for boys and girls, a 40-feet wide road opposite the centre etc. JDA will not take the responsibility for their relocation."

Super 30

The Times of India, Jun 13 2016 : The Times of India (Delhi)

Sheezan Nezami

Super 30 engineers another feat: 28 set for IIT

Kumar is one of 28 students of Bihar's famed Super 30 who have cracked this year's edition of the highly competitive test that decides admissions to the IITs. Their achievement caps yet another successful year for

What is Super 30?

Super 30 -a free coaching centre for underprivileged IIT aspirants -courts global renown for its high success rate year after year. The boarding institute coaches only 30 poor students every year, and in 2016 saw the entire batch clear JEE (Mains).

Super 30 was founded by Anand Kumar along with former Bihar director general of police Abhyanand in the first decade of the 21st century. Abhyanand later dissociated himself from the institute. Students seeking admission to Super 30 have to clear a competitive test and then commit themselves to a daily 16-hour study routine for a year. The success, Anand said, was the result of students' hard work and sincereity. his immediate focus every year was to free students of the feeling that they had not been to good schools.

2016

After an analysis of the marks scored by this year's batch, Anand said while the 28 students were surely headed for IITs, the remaining two would also get into good engineering colleges.

Basant Kumar, son of an illiterate marginal farmer in Bihar's Gaya, was elated when he saw his name in the list of candidates who had cracked the Joint Entrance Examination (Advanced) 2016. His father cannot tell IIT from ITI, but is happy that his son has succeeded in his pursuit.

Ajit Kumar, son of a vege table vendor and one of the successful aspirants, credited “Anand sir“ with changing his life: “He is a big inspiration for all of us. He motivated us.“ Pushkar Kumar, the son of a schoolteacher, added, “My father earns around Rs 8,000 a month, which goes into my mother's treatment.Once I get a job I will help my father financially .“

Another Super 30 success, Bipin Kumar, said he almost dropped out of school after Class X as his family could not afford his education. “IIT was just out of the question,“ he said. Other successful candidates include the sons of a daily-wager and a private security guard.

Stage at which students seek private tuition

As in 2017-18

Surojit Gupta, Secondary-level students take coaching most: Survey, July 21, 2020: The Times of India

The stage at which students seek private tuition, as in 2017-18.
From: Surojit Gupta, Secondary-level students take coaching most: Survey, July 21, 2020: The Times of India

Secondary level students topped the number of students taking private coaching with 31% males and 29% female students taking recourse to this method, a recent NSSO survey has shown.

The report also showed that nearly 20% students attending pre-primary and above level (21% of males and 19% of females) were taking private coaching.

According to the final report of the 75th round of the survey information was collected on whether a student was taking/had taken private coaching relating to the basic course. Private coaching might be taken by a student individually or in a group, at home or in any other place, by a single or more tutors.

Private coaching is a thriving business across the country and according to a 2016 NSSO report more than 7.1 crore students were taking private coaching or tuition classes in addition to their basic education.

At the pre-primary level 11.6% of students across the country were taking private coaching but this number rose gradually at the upper primary and middle level to 21.9% and rose to 30.2% at the secondary level. It then tapered to 27.5% at the higher secondary level.

Experts attributed the trend of a larger share of students at the secondary level taking recourse to private coaching to the entrance exams for professional courses such as engineering and medicines.

Anil Swarup, former secretary school education in the ministry of human resource development, explained the increase of students taking private coaching to the different competitive examinations and said this was a result of the dichotomy between learning and understanding.