Post Surat fire that killed minor, Guj plans tuition class

A day after a 7-year-old boy was killed in a fire that swept through a building which housed his tuition class, a Gujarat minister Tuesday said the government would move to regulate such classes.

Manthan Jadhav died of suffocation on Monday in the fire that took place in Surat's Vesu area.

Gujarat Education Minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama said, "We are planning to introduce a system wherein people need to take permission from the authorities to start tuition classes. Officials will grant permission only after visiting the premises to determine if it is safe to conduct classes."