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Informist, Monday, Aug 5, 2024

 

NEW DELHI – The Supreme Court today asked the Centre and Delhi government to respond as to what safety norms have been prescribed so far for the educational coaching institutes and what is the effective mechanism introduced for their compliance. The top court took suo moto cognisance of the issues related to safety norms, including the recent civil service aspirants' death.

 

"The recent unfortunate incidents taking away lives of some of the young ones who joined coaching centres for their career pursuits are eye-openers for one and all," remarked the apex court. It dismissed an appeal by the Coaching Federation of India against the Delhi High Court's order asking coaching centres in the national capital that have more than 20 students should move out of residential areas and operate from commercial spaces.

 

The Coaching Federation had moved the high court against the inclusion of coaching centres in the definition of "educational buildings" under the Unified Building Bye Laws-2016, thus requiring them to employ certain specific measures for fire safety. "These places have become death chambers. You(Coaching Federation) want us to set aside this simple order. You are taking away the lives of young ones coming from different parts of the country..." said the court, imposing a fine of 100,000 rupees on the federation. 

 

The court said that all coaching institutes and centres in Delhi are required to comply with the fire and safety norms under the Master Plan of Delhi, 2021, read with the Unified Building Bye-Laws of Delhi, 2016. Coaching institutes can operate online unless there is full compliance of the safety norms and basic norms for dignified life of young ones studying there, said the court. Such norms must include proper ventilation, safety passages, air, and light, the top court added.

 

Last year, a fire broke out in a coaching institute in Mukherjee Nagar area of Delhi, where students were seen climbing down the building using ropes. Earlier last month, three civil service aspirants died in a flooded basement at a coaching centre in Delhi's Old Rajinder Nagar area. On Friday, the high court transferred the investigation into the deaths of three civil service aspirants in the city's Old Rajinder Nagar area to the Central Bureau of Investigation.  End

 

Reported by Surya Tripathi

Edited by Manisha Baxla

 

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