Fire audits of all coaching centres in city, reports due March 9

Jaipur: District collector Jitendra Soni Wednesday ordered fire audits of all coaching centres in the city and directed institutes and local bodies to submit compliance reports by March 9.Soni chaired a meeting to ensure compliance with high court directions and the Rajasthan Coaching Centres (Control and Regulation) Act 2025. More than 50 coaching institutes were informed to attend, but only seven turned up.
During the meeting, municipal corporation fire officials could not give a clear answer on the status of fire-fighting equipment at institutes. Soni questioned the process for issuing fire NOCs and ordered surprise inspections."Due to equipment defects, a major incident may occur in the coaching institutes of Jaipur. To prevent this, timely inspections and audits must be done to ensure that fire-fighting equipment is working," Soni said.It was decided that additional district magistrate Yugantar Sharma will monitor coaching institutes.Soni also instructed coaching institutes to appoint a nodal officer at the district level, conduct entrance tests before admission, inform parents through student progress reports, not make test results public, and periodically train staff in hostels and PGs to identify students showing unusual behaviour.He objected to creating separate batches based on students scoring 70–80%, 80–90%, or above 95%, saying such discrimination is unacceptable.All-Coaching Institute Federation state president Anish Kumar Nadar, who attended the meeting, said, "We will comply with all the regulations of the district administration for the welfare of students. In the meeting, we also raised our demand regarding the formation of a Coaching Welfare Board by the state govt."