AIDSO leads protest against move to merge govt. schools

AIDSO members led a protestation successful Belagavi against what they called the State government’s plans to adjacent down authorities schools successful the sanction of merger to acceptable up Karnataka Public Schools (KPS).

They walked from Rani Channamma Circle to the Deputy Commissioner’s bureau and raised slogans against the State government. They submitted a petition to the State authorities done the Deputy Commissioner’s office.

“The Congress authorities successful the State is closing down astir 40,000 schools, successful the sanction of mounting up KPS Magnet Schools. This volition execute thing different than pushing the aboriginal of mediocre students into darkness. We powerfully condemn this move. We volition proceed to protestation till this determination is reversed,” the protestors said.

AIDSO territory convener Mahantesh Bilur suspected that the State authorities is taking specified anti-people measures nether unit from planetary backing agencies.

“In a caller property conference, Education Minister Madhu Bangarappa admitted to the information that the State authorities has taken a indebtedness of ₹2,500 crore from the Asian Development Bank for the KPS project,” helium said.

“It plans to instrumentality different indebtedness of ₹10,000 crore if the aviator is recovered successful. This is simply a wide denotation that the authorities is closing schools to support firm interests,” helium added.

“The Minister has indicated that determination volition beryllium 1 KPS Magnet School successful each gram panchayat that volition bid students from archetypal modular to 12th standard. This means that schools adjacent volition beryllium closed successful the sanction of merger. In the archetypal phase, preparations are nether mode to place 700 magnet schools and adjacent thousands of agrarian schools astir them. Honganur Government School successful Channapatna taluk of Ramanagara has already been identified arsenic a KPS Magnet School. A Government Order has been issued to urgently merge 7 schools wrong a 6-km radius of the school,” helium said.

“Similarly, 47 KPS Magnet Schools person been identified crossed Belagavi district. They see Sardar High School successful the city, Urdu High School successful Khanjargalli and Kanabaragi Higher Primary School. Hundreds of schools astir them volition beryllium closed. This is unacceptable,” helium said.

“At the opening of this world year, the State authorities projected to adjacent much than 6,800 schools successful the sanction of ‘Hub and Spoke’ model. We opposed this. As a protestation against this, ADISO and acrophobic students conducted a run to cod 50 lakh signatures. As a result, the Education Minister promised the radical of the State that not a azygous authorities schoolhouse volition beryllium closed. But now, the authorities is readying to adjacent down implicit 40,000 schools successful the sanction of mounting up KPS Magnet Schools. It has already begun mentation connected the archetypal specified schoolhouse successful Channapatna. The Congress authorities has betrayed the spot of the radical of the State,” helium said.

“We are not against Karnataka Public Schools but we powerfully condemn the merger of surrounding schools into a azygous schoolhouse nether the KPS Magnet School Scheme. Such closure is against the wishes of large leaders similar Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Mahatma Jyotiba Pule and revolutionaries similar Bhagat Singh-Netaji, who are pioneers of our country’s Renaissance Movement,” helium said.

Student leaders Sanju, Lakshmi, Muskan, Chahat, Savitri and Malashree participated successful this protest.