Law Kumar Mishra
Patna, August 2
To ensure attendance of students and teachers in the schools, state government on Wednesday directives to all district magistrates to keep the coaching centres shut during school hours.
Additional Chief Secretary of education department K K Pathak in a circular to the District Magistrate (DMs) and instructed no coaching centre should be allowed to function between 9 am and 4 pm daily. They can run the centre after the schools close for the day.
There are 10,000 coaching centres in the state capital alone. According to the circular, DMs will also ensure no teacher or employee of the government or non-government schools visits the coaching centres even after the school hours. Students will be allowed to appear at the annual examinations only if they have 75 per cent attendance in the classes, circular read.
DMs have been asked to strictly enforce provisions of the Bihar Coaching Centres Regulations Act, 2020.
Any coaching centre having annual earnings of Rs 20 lakhs will have to get themselves registered with the GST council, get licence as a commercial institute.
Pathak had been making surprise visits to schools in different districts and found many teachers absent and attendance of students poor. He is sending officers from the state secretariat to rural areas to make surprise visits to schools.
However, Pathak who had opposed engagement of teachers in non-academic activities today allowed DMs to keep teachers in the caste survey duties while maintaining teaching was not affected in the schools.
