COACHING CENTRES: TOO BIG A TRADE TO BE LEFT UNREGULATED

THE mushrooming of coaching centres needs to be reined in.

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While the burgeoning coaching industry offers employment to lakhs of people, its unchecked growth has led to many mishaps that the education system can ill afford. Their unchecked growth has assumed the proportion of a menace that poses risks to the education system as well as students. The latest incident in Delhi, where three students died due to flooding of a 'study circle' located in a building's basement is only the tip of the iceberg. More troubling issues have surfaced in the not-too-distant past. Coaching centres have also been at the centre of several question paper leaks as well as other irregularities in exams as consequential as the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test. The coaching ind