Patna: RJD supremo Lalu Prasad on Friday slammed
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for taking initiative to
enact a law to regulate the coaching institutes a little too
late.
"Kumar's initiative to enact a law to regulate coaching
institutes in Bihar is a belated one... it is something like a
person has abruptly come out of deep slumber. A student lost
his life in violent protests against the coaching institute
operators here on Tuesday," Prasad told reporters.
He said several students have to go to Rajasthan, Mumbai
and New Delhi for coaching purpose because of "highhandedness
of the institutes here which are involved in cheating," he
said.
"Nitish is talking about the law to monitor the coaching
institutes at a time when his days as Chief Minister are
numbered," he said.
Prasad demanded Rs 10 lakh compensation and a government
job for the next of the kin of Sachin Sharma, an aspiring
engineering student, who was killed in the protests.
Prasad also accused the Nitish Kumar government of being
hand in glove with owners of coaching institutes who, he said,
were "running a parallel education system in Bihar".
PTI
First Published: Friday, February 12, 2010, 19:07