India, March 26 -- The state government on Tuesday told the Bombay high court that a bill for regulating private coaching classes across the state will be tabled in the monsoon session of the state assembly.

The statement came from a government lawyer when a division bench of chief justice Alok Aradhe and justice Makarand Karnik was hearing a plea by city resident Bhagwanji Raiyani for implementation of earlier orders of the court.

"This court had earlier appointed an expert committee to consider the issue and directed the state government to come up with a policy. An ordinance was promulgated in this regard by the state earlier, but it has lapsed since then. However, there is still no statewide policy in place," Raiyani told the court ...