Ever since Prakash Javadekar became UNHRD minister, he has been truly committed to his task of taking Indian education to a different level altogether. This time he has criticised Coaching Centres all over the country for creating mediocrity all over. He was categorical in referring that the coaching centres treat students as ‘slaves’ under the pretext of training them for various entrance exams. He has also pointed out the decline in teaching standards in schools and colleges due to such over-dependence on coaching centres.

Interestingly, UNHRD Minister was actually pointing at the ‘dummy admission’ with the unholy coaching institutes – school nexus. Truly Prakash Javadekar is absolutely right in pinpointing at coaching classes during school hours. No doubt, there was enough hint in the Minister’s words that the central government is certainly looking to regulate the coaching centres. even which Supreme Court called for earlier this year.

What Prakash Javadekar has remarked is absolutely contemporary. The present system of coaching classes has not only created discrimination in the domain of education, but also a sad trend where education has become an issue of affordability. The coaching centres have become ‘mandatory’ in the present scenario and certainly need to be regulated without any delay.