KNZ NEWS DESK
Srinagar, Apr 29: The school education department Saturday said that the private coaching centres will be allowed to remain open on few conditions devised by Directorate School Education Kashmir (DSEK).
Director School Education Kashmir, G N Itoo said, “The coaching centres will be allowed to remain open but in a proper mechanism and to devise that mechanism we need few days.”
Itoo was speaking during an interaction meeting with a group of students and parents here in the directorate office.
Itoo said that the coaching institutes that will qualify as per the mechanism and without violating norms of DSEK will be allowed to function.
He said: “We want to make a proper mechanism in which our basic stakeholders (parents and students) shall have a proper guidance and proper protection while taking private tuitions.”
“We meet with the stakeholders of private coaching centres and we told them that we have accepted you as a part and parcel of the system by giving you a registration but registration is conditional,” he said.
Itoo also added that to get the broader perspective regarding if we have to give permission to coaching centres to function, “what should be the mechanism so that the complaints of the students and parents will be addressed in advance”.
“If the education system has to go further, it has to go in a transparent way by following the legal norms of the system,” Itoo said.
Keeping the academics interest in view, very soon we will be notifying the feasible timing for the qualified coaching institutes, Itoo said, adding, “A new timing with the agreement of consent will be initiated with the coaching institutes.”
He added: “The temporary ban to the coaching centres was with regard to the academic tuition in which we had ordered that we will review it fortnightly but later our Education Minister Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari directed us that we must take a review of the information which we gathered from the field.” (RK)
