AIDSO stages protest in Belagavi against merger of rural schools

AIDSO members took retired a protestation rally successful Belagavi connected Monday, against the State government’s plans to commencement magnet Karnataka Public Schools, saying that the authorities is closing agrarian schools successful the sanction of merger.

Protestors gathered astatine Dharwad Naka connected the Pune-Bengaluru National Highway adjacent the Suvarna Soudha.

They raised slogans against the State authorities and expressed the fearfulness that astir 40,000 authorities schools successful agrarian areas faced closure successful this exercise.

AIDSO State vice-president Abhaya Diwakar said that Primary and Secondary Education Minister Madhu Bangarappa has been repeatedly making mendacious claims astir the scheme.

“The Minister has said that nary authorities schoolhouse volition beryllium closed. But this is acold from truth. Already, Education Department officials are closing down agrarian schools successful Yadgir, Channapatna, Chitradurga, Chikkaballapur and different districts. An estimated 2,000 schools are apt to beryllium closed successful Belagavi district. This is condemnable,’’ she said.

Meanwhile, Subhash Bettadakoppa of AIDSO said that the State authorities is invited to commencement Karnataka Public Schools arsenic an alternate exemplary and not by merging agrarian schools.

The State authorities is not disquieted astir reducing the intake successful authorities schools , issues similar teacher vacancies, missing infrastructure and debased prime of acquisition successful nationalist schools, helium said.

Studies person indicated that astir of the dropouts are from deprived communities, peculiarly girls from backward and number communities.

The State authorities has claimed that the main attraction of Karnataka Public Schools is the English-medium instruction. However, it has not made due preparations to bid teachers successful English-medium instruction. The State authorities has not shown enthusiasm successful filling the implicit 60,000 vacancies successful authorities schools, helium said.

Leaders Rajashekar S., Mahantesh Bilur, Arun, Eeranna, Vaibhav and different activists were present.