Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 25: Alleging open loot by various coaching centres operating in Jammu city, the National Secular Forum (NSF) has flayed the Government for maintaining silence over the same and demanded stern action against these institutions under rules. Addressing a press conference here today, NSF president Dr Vikas Sharma said that several unauthorizedly run private coaching centres in Jammu, with heavy turnover of crores of rupees and involving big names, were openly indulging in loot by charging exorbitant fee while the authorities were maintaining stoic silence over the entire issue.
“Most of the coaching centres are running unauthorizedly and charge fee as per their sweet will while authorities are exercising no control over them despite clear cut directions of the High Court of J&K in this regard,” he said and reminded that the HC has asked the Government to check the infrastructure of all such private coaching centres and fix the fee.
Vikas further alleged that these coaching centres were taking huge amount of rupees as registration fee and also charging service charges under the GST regime owing to which parents were compelled to pay exorbitant charges and that too without any accountability. He demanded from the Education Department to carry out inspections of all the coaching centres and check their registration as well as fee structures. He also demanded stern action against all those coaching centres, which were running without registration and fleecing the students.
The NSF leader threatened to launch a massive agitation with the support of students and parents in case the Government fails to tame those unauthorized coaching centres.
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