Jaipur, Sept. 4 -- The state assembly on Wednesday passed the Coaching Centre (Control and Regulation) Bill 2025 proposing a two-tier authority to monitor the coaching institutes across the state and imposing a penalty of Rs.5,00,000 on the institutes for violating the guidelines. The proposed bill 'Rajasthan Coaching Centre (Control and Regulation) Bill, 2025' is based on the Coaching Centre Regulatory Guidelines notified by the Union ministry of education on January 16 this year. HT has seen a copy of the bill. "Over the past two decades, the State of Rajasthan has witnessed an unchecked proliferation of coaching centres. These centres often operate in a largely unregulated environment, luring lakhs of students every year with promises of guaranteed success in competitive examinations such as NEET, IIT-JEE, IIM entrance tests, and CLAT," deputy CM Prem Chand Bairwa said while describing the objectives of the draft bill. According to the Bill, a 12-member Rajasthan Coaching Centres (Control and Regulation) Authority will be formed. It will be chaired by the secretary of the higher education department and will also have secretaries of the school education department, medical education department, technical education department, and the state's Director General of Police (DGP). Meanwhile, under the aegis of the state-level authority, a district authority will also be formed having 12 members. It will be chaired by the concerned district collector. The district panel will also have the police superintendent (SP), Chief Medical and Health Officer (CMHO), and the Chief District Education Officer as key members. According to the Bill, the district authority "shall create a web-portal/online mechanism to facilitate the registration of coaching centres in a faceless manner with minimum human interface." The state-level authority will also prepare a centralised portal to gather information sent by the district authority regarding the coaching centres and the students enrolled in these institutions. "It may establish a 24x7 call centre for such districts as may be prescribed for the purpose of addressing grievances of students enrolled in coaching centres. It may inspect any premises of coaching centre and ask for any such records, accounts, register or other documents for the purpose of ascertaining whether there is or has been any contravention and refer the matter to district committee for necessary action." The bill also mandated the coaching centres to stop malpractices such as bogus advertisement, making false claims, putting up lucrative offers, etc. The bill was tabled on March 19 in the state assembly but met with sharp objections from both the BJP and Congress MLAs following which it was sent to the select committee for further consideration on March 24....