No Coaching Centres With Over 20 Students To Be Allowed In Residential Areas in Delhi

No Coaching Centres With Over 20 Students To Be Allowed: Dehli High Court on Thursday 15 February 2024 ordered that coaching centres with more than 20 students should move out of the residential area.

According to a bench made up of Justice Manmeet PS Arora and Acting Chief Justice Manmohan, students who attend coaching centres located in residential buildings “run the risk of their lives”, because these buildings lack proper safety features like two stairs.

There must be hundreds of students attending your classes. You should not be in a residential building. Move to a commercial building.”

“You cannot operate from a residential area. Where students are more than 20, you must move out,” Justice Manmeet P S Arora added.

Why Delhi High Court Restricts Coaching Centers with More Than 20 Students

When a fire broke out at a coaching centre in Mukherjee Nagar last year in June, the High Court filed a case by taking suo motu cognizance of the incident. Students were seen using ropes to climb down the building.

According to initial investigations, the five-story building’s electrical meter board might have been the source of the fire. According to investigators, there were approximately 250 students taking classes at Bhandari House at the time.

In February 2020, the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) modified its Unified Building Bye Laws-2016 (UBBL-2016), including coaching centres in the definition of “Educational Buildings”.

The petitioner appealed the court’s decision to include coaching centres in the definition of “educational buildings,” mandating them to implement specified fire safety measures, among other things.

“The DDA has come up with a notification classifying me as an educational institute. The notification came out in 2020. We are seeking that the notification must go and we need clarification,” advocate Rajeshwari Hariharan, appearing in the court on behalf of the petitioner, said.

The court stated that it cannot stay a notification that was released in 2020, but it did order that the petition be scheduled for a hearing before another division bench on Friday, which addresses the matter of fire safety at coaching centres.

“We cannot stay a 2020 notification. This is involving human lives,” the court said.

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