Govt wants to end coaching culture: Education Minister

New Delhi, July 31
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan today said that the government wants to end the coaching culture in India.
Addressing Parliament, he said that the National Testing Agency (NTA) is accountable to the students and the government is committed to ending the pervasive coaching culture.
“Be it NTA or any instrument of the government, it is accountable in every way, inside and outside Parliament, up to the level of CAG audit. In the past six years, more than five crore students took up 250 exams conducted by NTA. The quality of education should be such that there is no need for coaching centres. Kendriya Vidyalaya and Navodaya Vidyalaya are examples of quality education. We have to bring our students out of the world of coaching centres, it should be done legally and by bringing social change,” Pradhan said.
Pradhan also noted significant advancements in medical education, stating that the number of MBBS seats in the country has more than doubled from 51,000 in 2014 to 1,10,000 at present. — TNS