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The All India Democratic Students’ Organisation (AIDSO) has expressed its beardown absorption to the State government’s reported determination to found astir 6,000 much Karnataka Public Schools (KPS) successful the State.
It said Primary and Secondary Education Minister Madhu Bangarappa had announced precocious that the State authorities has projected to commencement 6,000 much nationalist schools crossed Karnataka.
Condemning the move, AIDSO said, “This is thing but different effort to merge and unopen down existing authorities schools successful the guise of a caller scheme.” Earlier, the government, pursuing nationalist unit and wide protests from teachers, students, parents, and educationists, had promised not to adjacent oregon merge immoderate authorities school. “However, by introducing the KPS program to found 1 specified schoolhouse successful each Gram Panchayat, the authorities is allegedly attempting erstwhile again to centralise resources and unopen down tiny and agrarian schools, thereby weakening the existing authorities schoolhouse network,” the AIDSO alleged.
In a property merchandise successful Mysuru, AIDSO said the “anti-people” argumentation volition inevitably pb to closures and mergers of galore functional authorities schools, the nonaccomplishment of entree to adjacent neighbourhood schools for children from mediocre and agrarian backgrounds, and a emergence successful dropouts, particularly among miss students, owing to accrued question region and insecurity. Also, this volition effect successful further commercialisation and privatisation of acquisition nether the guise of “reform”, claimed AIDSO Mysuru District Secretary Nithin.
“The task of the authorities is not to rename oregon restructure, but to fortify each authorities schoolhouse with capable teachers, infrastructure, learning materials, and antiauthoritarian functioning. Education is simply a cardinal close and a societal work — it cannot beryllium sacrificed for cost-cutting oregon corporate-style management,” it remarked. AIDSO has demanded contiguous withdrawal of the KPS strategy and called upon the radical of Karnataka, including teachers, students, parents, and others to unite and physique an effectual wide question to support nationalist education. “Let america rise our dependable to prevention and fortify authorities schools, not to merge oregon adjacent them successful the sanction of reforms,” helium said.
