For years, Kota’s crowded lanes have been the proving ground for some of India’s toughest entrance exams. Teenagers chasing engineering and medical education dreams filled the city’s hostels and coaching hubs while their names quietly remained on the rolls of ‘dummy schools’—institutions that allegedly existed mostly on paper. Or ‘dummy’ classes in reputed schools, which allegedly collected fees and issued attendance certificates for students to write their board exams.
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That system is now being dismantled. This September, the Rajasthan High Court ordered a crackdown on ‘dummy schools’ connected with coaching centres. The order came while hearing a petition by two schools in Kota, challenging their disaffiliation by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) for failing to provide evidence of students enrolled.
The court disapproved of the nexus between schools and coaching centres and condemned the proliferation of ‘dummy’ schools across the state.
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