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Govt to take stern action against coaching classes, says Vinod Tawde

The government will soon act against integrated classes and deploy biometric system to mark attendance in colleges.

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State education minister Vinod Tawde on Monday said that the government is planning to take stern action against the commercialisation of education by coaching classes. He said that the government will bring in comprehensive legislation to prevent such unscrupulous activities. The government will soon act against integrated classes and deploy biometric system to mark attendance in colleges.

Tawde also said that action would be taken against colleges that are hand in glove with such coaching classes for integrated classes. He further added that some colleges which have biometric to mark attendance have installed the machine at the coaching classes. In such cases, colleges have an understanding with the coaching classes, and give students permission to bunk college — not attend the mandatory number of classes. Such institutes would soon be penalised, he added.

MLAs Parag Alavani, Narendra Pawar, Ashish Shelar, Tamil Selvan, Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil, Aslam Shaikh, Sunil Prabhu, Abu Azmi, among others, had raised the issue of coaching classes by calling an attention motion in the state assembly. Tawde appealed to all members to cooperate with the government, after introducing a new legislation and appealed parents to ensure that their wards attend regular classes in colleges and schools, instead of going to coaching classes.

Members pointed out that there are more than 60,000 coaching classes in the state and more than 10,000 in Mumbai alone. The members criticised that coaching classes have parallel mechanisms where they promise that students will secure more marks, and avail income worth lakhs of rupees.

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Education minister Vinod Tawde said action would be taken against colleges that are hand in glove with such coaching classes for integrated classes

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