New Delhi: A law to prohibit and punish malpractices in the educational system will be brought within 100 days, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said on Thursday.

"We are going to bring a law to prevent, prohibit and punish educational malpractices in the country. It is meant to make the system more transparent," Sibal told reporters of his ministry's plans in the first 100 days of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government after being returned to power.

Anyone breaching the law should be punished, he added.

"Many a times, students going to Australia are being told that they are going for vocational training but when they land there it turns out to be something else. These things should be transparent," he said.

The ministry is also planning to permit foreign educational providers into India.

"We will bring a law to regulate foreign educational providers in India. It is not a license for them but a regulation. Why not the best educational institutions of the world come to India?" IANS