I invite you to read this article: https://indianexpress.com/article/india/no-intake-of-students-below-16-years-govt-guidelines-coaching-centres-9116076/
Sound intention, but incorrect approach to solving the problem.
As long as there is competition, there will be coaching. This holds true as much in education as in sports. You are banning one mode of coaching, other modes will arise to take its place.
What needs to be broken is this: Presently many many schools let their students bunk school for years at stretch so that they can be present full time at coaching centers. This needs to be, and can be, firmly stopped. Among other things, it takes away years of laboratory work - a critical component of science education. Laboratory marks are "adjusted", which is nothing but blatant cheating, corruption. And when students who have missed laboratory work for years at stretch come to IITs, NITs, IIITs, etc., what we have is students who are severely compromised on scientific intuition as well as the ability to analyze and explain observations independently.
Be firm with schools, insist on a certain attendance percentage in classes and labs to take Grade 10 and Grade 12 exams, and use monitoring committees to ensure that this is implemented honestly.
If this is done (and it can be) you would have solved more than one problem without banning anything.
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