"Morning and evening, youngsters come with bikes. Many loiter around, harassing women and old people. Coaching centres must shift out to commercial premises or institutional areas. We will not permit them in residential areas," the bench said. (Represetative Image)

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday said coaching centres in residential areas were a nuisance to women and the elderly and must shift out to commercial premises or institutional areas.

A bench of Chief Justice T S Thakur and Justice U U Lalit refused to give any relief to petitioner All Rajasthan Coaching Institutes Association, which had challenged the eviction order served on its members by Jaipur Development Authority, following a Rajasthan high court order banning functioning of tutorials illegally from residential colonies.

"Morning and evening, youngsters come with bikes. Many loiter around, harassing women and old people. Coaching centres must shift out to commercial premises or institutional areas. We will not permit them in residential areas," the bench said.

Appearing for the petitioner, senior advocate Kapil Sibal tried his best to get an interim stay on the eviction notice by arguing it was beyond the jurisdiction of the authority which had served the eviction notices on 118 coaching institutes operating from the Lal Kothi residential area in Jaipur.

The bench was unimpressed and asked Sibal's client to respond to the eviction notice and move the court as and when the final order for vacating the premises in residential areas was passed by the authorities. The bench appeared firm against tutorials and coaching centres operating from residential areas.

"Why should these institutes be permitted to operate from residential areas and make lives of many miserable? These institutes create chaos in residential areas," it said.

In the high court, petitioner Ghasiram had argued that these coaching centres illegally mushroomed in about 15 colonies in Lal Kothi in violation of norms which provide that no coaching centre can function in an area where the width of the road was less than 40 feet.

"Most of the coaching centres are functioning in violation of this rule. They have become a source of sound pollution and other civic problems," the petitioner had said in the high court.

JDA had said, "Barring three-four coaching centres in Lal Kothi, almost every coaching centre violates government norms. There are norms such as 300 yard space for the centre, separate toilets for boys and girls, a 40-feet wide road opposite the centre etc. JDA will not take the responsibility for their relocation."

