New Delhi: On Thursday, the Delhi High Court ordered that coaching facilities with more than 20 pupils relocate from residential areas to commercial locations. This was said by the bench consisting of Justice Manmeet PS Arora and Acting Chief Justice Manmohan during the hearing of a petition submitted by the Coaching Federation of India. According to the report, students who attend coaching centers housed in residential structures lacking necessary safety features like two stairs “run the risk of their lives.” “Hundreds of pupils must be present in your classes.
You have no business being in a domestic structure. The bench directed the federation, which has contested the inclusion of coaching centers in the definition of “educational buildings,” therefore requiring them to have particular fire safety precautions, to transfer to a commercial facility. “Where students are more than 20, you must move out,” the bench said. The DDA updated its Unified Building Bye Laws-2016 in February 2020, adding coaching centers to the list of “educational buildings.” The federation ordered that the notification be removed. The judge stated it could not abide by a notification from 2020 and ordered the plea to be scheduled for Friday before another bench.
