From Rs 2,240 crore to Rs 5,517 crore, GST collection from coaching centres more than doubled in 5 years, RS told

MoS for Education Sukanta Majumdar informed the Rajya Sabha that GST collection from coaching centres had increased in the last 5 years. He was responding to a question on whether the coaching industry was ‘colossal and expanding rapidly’.

The GST collection from coaching institutions stood at Rs 2,240.73 crore in 2019-20 and increased to Rs 5,517.45 crore in 2023-24, Majumdar said, referring to data from the revenue department, Ministry of Finance.

The Goods and Services Tax (GST) collection from coaching centres has more than doubled in the past five years, according to data from the Ministry of Finance submitted by Minister of State for Education Sukanta Majumdar in response to a question in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.

The figure in 2020-21 saw a marginal dip compared to the previous year, at Rs 2,215.24 crore. The collection rose to Rs 3,045.12 crore in 2021-22 and further increased to 4,667.03 crore in 2022-23.

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Majumdar was responding to a question on whether the coaching industry “is colossal and expanding rapidly” and the “estimated worth of the coaching industry and its projected growth in the near future”.

In the wake of the death of three UPSC aspirants due to flooding of the basement of a coaching centre in Delhi last weekend, the government’s response in Parliament to questions on coaching centres and issues related to them has been that guidelines were issued by the Centre in January this year to regulate the functioning of coaching centres, and since education is in the concurrent list, state and Union Territory governments are to take further action.

In response to another question in the Rajya Sabha on whether the government has taken cognizance of increasing student suicide cases, fire incidents and deficiencies in facilities and teaching methodologies in private coaching centres in the country, and if specific instructions have been issued on their functioning, Majumdar pointed to the guidelines issued in January this year.

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His response on Wednesday said that the guidelines encompass “several key aspects, including defining coaching centres, specifying conditions and necessary documents for registration, issues related to fees, outlining infrastructure prerequisites for establishing coaching centres, establishing a code of conduct for coaching centres…”.

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It added: “The guidelines, inter-alia, stipulate continuous monitoring of activities of the coaching centre; introducing a complaint mechanism and disposal thereof; penalties, process for cancellation of registration and appeals etc…Education being in the concurrent list, the State and UT governments need to take further action by way of appropriate legal framework.”

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