Rajasthan: Regulatory body to monitor private schools, colleges coming up

JAIPUR: The state higher education department is coming up with the Rajasthan State Education Authority, a body to regulate private colleges, schools and coaching institutes.
The aim is to make institutes 100% accountable and provide a cover to parents and students from being cheated.
“The body will address all the issues which we are facing with private education institutes, including coaching institutes. It has been designed in a way to protect the interest of parents and students,” said an official requesting anonymity.
The body will ensure that every institute under them follows all infrastructure rules, pupil-teacher ratio, classroom student’s ratio, fees and academic quality. The vetting of claims on placements, infrastructure, facilities, distance, affiliations, international and national tie-ups made by the institutes often misleading students.
The existing rules allow the institutes to frame any rules they want and claim anything misleading the students. The official said that the most common complaint which they receive is that institutes run courses which they are not permitted to. “Hike of fees in an abrupt manner, books with no MRP, no academic staff of the concerned subject etc., will all be addressed by the body,” said an official, who added that the proposal is before the CM for approval.
Officials claim that the long-pending issue of documentation of coaching students will also be addressed by the body. “It will be compulsory for the local administration to provide immediate relief and help, along with a cap on students’ intake on the basis of infrastructure,” said an official.