Greater Noida, July 24 -- Five coaching institutes in Greater Noida were sealed on Thursday for failing to install mandatory fire safety equipment despite being given a two-week deadline to comply, officials said.

Officials said inspections of coaching institutes across Greater Noida will continue as part of a drive launched on the directions of the Uttar Pradesh government to enforce fire safety norms.

According to the Greater Noida authority, a joint team of the authority and the fire department inspected 13 coaching institutes in the Alpha Commercial Belt. Five institutes were found operating without the mandatory fire safety systems despite having been directed during an earlier inspection to comply within two weeks.

The inspection...