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?Protest day? against education anomalies
ALL INDIA Democratic Students Organisation (AIDSO) activists will observe ?All India Protest Day? against reduction in seats, expensive education and GATS, here on Tuesday. A memorandum signed by thousands of students will be sent to the President of India through the District Magistrate.
ALL INDIA Democratic Students Organisation (AIDSO) activists will observe ‘All India Protest Day’ against reduction in seats, expensive education and GATS, here on Tuesday. A memorandum signed by thousands of students will be sent to the President of India through the District Magistrate.
In a communiqué, AIDSO convenor Jharna Malviya said to commemorate the birth centenary of Chandrashekhar Azad and to keep alive Azad’s anti-imperialism ideology, a public meeting will be organised near the Allahabad University (AU) student union hall. The meeting has been called against the commercialisation of education.
Malviya said July 25 will be observed as a nation-wide protest day against GATS, and AIDSO’s Allahabad unit would submit a memorandum for the President to the DM. The AIDSO will protest against reduction in seats in AU and against no reduction in fee and cost of admission forms of the varsity. A signature campaign in this regard is being run for past two months by the activists.
Meanwhile, Bahujan Chhatra Sabha (BCS) announced it would organise its regional conference at Allahabad University student union (AUU) hall at 11 am on August 3. This was disclosed by AU student leader Shiv Babu Saroj at a meeting of BCS activists held at the AUU hall on Monday.
Saroj said BCS activists from different universities and colleges of the State will take part in the conference. BCS activists will hold discussions over serious problems of students of different universities of the State and workout plans to hold demonstrations to overcome the problems of the students.
The activists said BCS activists from AU will raise the demand of increasing number of seats in the varsity, reservation, recruitment of teachers against vacant posts, disbursal of SC/ST scholarship of the session 2004-05 and several other problems of the students.
AU students, led by student leader Rajesh Singh and AUU general secretary Suresh Yadav, met heads of different departments of the AU and members of AU Grievance Committee Proctor Prof Jata Shankar and Dean Students Welfare (DSW) Prof Jagdamba Singh on Monday. Students demanded the authorities for immediate action in demands of the students.
The students said the AU Grievance Committee in their recent meeting with the students welcomed suggestions and demands of the students and assured them to take appropriate action. The student leaders said AU authorities had taken no action yet and pressed to fulfil their demands immediately.
