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The Central Committee of Kannada Organisations successful Belagavi has decided to articulation Marathi and Urdu associations to enactment up a communal protestation against the Karnataka Public Schools (KPS) being acceptable up by the authorities of Karnataka.
Ashok Chandargi, committee president, made the announcement astatine a protestation gathering successful the Sahitya Bhavan successful Belagavi connected January 18 He said that the Education Department was readying to adjacent implicit 40,000 agrarian schools successful Karnataka successful the sanction of merging them with the ‘model schools’ astatine the gram panchayat level. “These see implicit 2,000 schools successful Belagavi district, including Kannada, Marathi and Urdu schools. If the State Government goes up with specified steps, it volition beryllium an irreversible move,” helium said.
“The State Government should realise that starting and continuing Kannada mean authorities schools successful borderline districts, similar Belagavi, is simply a hard task. We person been warring with successive governments led by assorted parties to guarantee this. But we are shocked to spot that the authorities is trying to adjacent implicit 2,000 schools successful Belagavi district. These see those successful borderline villages successful Belagavi and Khanapur taluks. This is successful nonstop contradiction to the claims of Education Minister Madhu Bangarappa who claimed connected the level of the House that the government volition not adjacent authorities schools. I would accidental this is thing but axenic madness. If the authorities thinks the communal radical and Kannada organisations volition support quiescent against specified injustice, it is wrong,” helium said.
“The KPS magnet schools volition adjacent agrarian schools and unit students from the mediocre and deprived communities, and miss students to locomotion to schools that are 10- 15 kilometres away, which is astir impossible. Poor parents who cannot spend to nonstop their children to schools successful the neighbourhood, volition ne'er beryllium capable to nonstop them to distant schools. This volition beryllium a disaster. We volition combat against this unitedly, forgetting differences of language, caste and creed,’’ Mr Chandargi said.
Writer Dadasaheb S. Chougale said that this was intelligibly an anti-poor scheme. “This is volition marque the affluent richer portion pushing the mediocre into utmost poverty. The authorities indispensable instantly wantonness this argumentation and fortify agrarian schools. All the large writers and thinkers successful the State person argued powerfully that lone erstwhile Kannada schools past volition the State thrive. We request to support authorities schools. This has been among the large resolutions passed successful each the Kannada Sahitya Sammelanas till now,” helium said. He urged writers to actively enactment successful the struggle.
AIDSO State Committee subordinate Tulaja Ram N. K. said that moves similar KPS were undermining the historical conflict for cosmopolitan education, led by reformers similar Savitribai Phule and Mahatma Jyotiba Phule . “It was due to the fact that of their relentless conflict that the doors of acquisition were opened to children of each castes and sex successful villages. But KPS volition undo specified revolutions. All of america should guarantee that not a azygous authorities schoolhouse is allowed to close,” helium said.
AIDSO person Subhash Bettadakoppa alleged that the KPS strategy was forced by outer forces similar Asian Development Bank and World Bank. KPS schools are besides proposing to bid students successful vocational skills similar carpentry and arecanut peeling, that could marque them acceptable to driblet retired and go mill workers and proceed the ill-effects of casteism, helium said.
He complained that the State Government was negligent of authorities schools successful agrarian areas. “Over 3.7 cardinal children are enrolled successful these schools. But implicit 21,000 schools person not been repaired and 60,000 teacher posts are vacant. All this is simply a conspiracy to manus implicit acquisition to firm houses. People indispensable physique a beardown conflict against this cruel argumentation being implemented by some the Congress and BJP parties,’’ helium said.
Kallappa Patil, President of the Balagatti Public Education Protection Committee, appealed to radical of each languages — Kannada, Marathi, and Urdu — to travel unneurotic and physique a agreed and beardown struggle. He recalled his acquisition of organising a protestation of parents successful his village. He said that for mediocre children to person education, authorities schools indispensable beryllium established and continued wrong villages.
AIDSO leaders similar Mahantesh Bilur, Gram Panchayat members, parents and students were present.
