Coaching Institutes have to follow certain guidelines now, after various shocking incidences of suicides, fire incidences, and mismanagement of coaching institutes, the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education issued new guidelines for the coaching institutes.
Big No to misleading promises
Earlier, coaching institutes used to make false promises to students, leading many to enroll without considering the consequences. Now, the new rules prohibit these institutes from making misleading promises or guarantees of ranks and good marks to parents and students when enrolling them in coaching centers.
No coaching institute can enroll students below the age of 16, or enrollment should only occur after the secondary school examination. This is a crucial step taken by the Ministry, as students below this age are not mentally prepared to handle the pressure, and they become physically and mentally exhausted during the preparation.
No coaching institute can impose fees indiscriminately.
The middle-class and poor people, who send their children to these institutes with higher aspirations, get trapped in these institutes’ unreasonable fee demands. The Centre has especially focused on the fair and reasonable fees charged to students. 
Coaching institutes used to charge blindly, and parents had to pay without question. Now, if students leave the course midway, institutes have to refund them. Under no circumstances should the fee, based on which enrollment has been made for a particular course and duration, be increased during the course.
This initiative is the need of the hour, as lakhs of students get enrolled in institutes and, without any rules and regulations, they have to pay whatever amount is demanded.
The Centre has also provided guidelines to the institutes regarding infrastructure requirements, and now every institute has to maintain the safety standards mentioned in the guidelines.
Students’ lives matter
Now coaching centers cannot exhaust students by forcing them to take classes for long hours. Coaching institutes conduct classes in a way that is not excessive for the students.
This initiative by the ministry will surely protect students from mental exhaustion. There was a need for regulating these institutes, as they were misleading students and parents. The number of students enrolled in these
institutes is in the millions, and they are highly mismanaged. These guidelines will prohibit the exploitation of students.
We have to understand the fact that students are not machines or fulfillers of our expectations whose only motive should be to achieve good ranks or marks without thinking about their safety and mental health. They are more than that; their safety and health should be our priority.
