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The All India Democratic Students’ Organisation (AIDSO), Mysuru territory committee, connected Tuesday alleged that the State authorities was preparing to adjacent oregon merge a ample fig of authorities schools crossed the State nether the recently announced KPS-Magnet Schools Scheme, contrary to authoritative claims that ‘not a azygous schoolhouse volition beryllium closed’.
Addressing a property league here, the AIDSO leaders claimed they had examined authorities documents and circulars that bespeak large-scale schoolhouse mergers, peculiarly successful agrarian areas. They claimed that arsenic galore arsenic 1,666 authorities schools successful Mysuru territory unsocial person been reportedly identified for ‘closure oregon merger’.
Quoting a circular dated October 15, 2025, plans are afoot to found 6,000 KPS Magnet Schools, 1 successful each Gram Panchayat. In the archetypal phase, 800 schools person been shortlisted crossed the State. A aviator task has already been launched astatine Honganooru successful Channapatna taluk successful Ramanagara district, wherever six schools wrong a six-km radius person been ‘ordered to merge with the recently designated Magnet School’.
Villagers person protested the move, demanding that their section schools beryllium strengthened instead, the leaders said.
The AIDSO has besides expressed interest implicit projected amendments to work rules that would necessitate pre-university assemblage lecturers to thatch high-school classes. “This is possibly an denotation that authorities PU colleges excessively whitethorn beryllium astatine hazard of closure successful the coming days,” it said.
The organisation criticised the authorities for readying to repurpose the buildings of schools that are slated to beryllium closed.
At the property conference, the leaders claimed that Minister for School Education Madhu Bangarappa had reportedly stated that vacant schoolhouse buildings would beryllium handed implicit to self-help groups, contradicting the government’s assertion that nary schoolhouse was being shut.
The AIDSO leaders said the determination to adjacent oregon merge schools undermines the bequest of societal reformers and thinkers specified arsenic Jyotirao Phule, Savitribai Phule, who worked to grow entree to education. They called upon students, parents, teachers, and the nationalist to unite against what they described arsenic a ‘direct onslaught connected authorities education’.
Subhash Bettadakoppa, AIDSO State treasurer, Chandrakala, territory president; Nitin, territory secretary; Swati, territory vice-president; and different office-bearers were contiguous astatine the property conference.
