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Left pupil organisations, including the SFI, AISF, AIDSO, AISA, and KVS, condemned the Karnataka government’s determination to merge authorities schools with KPS Magnet schools, astatine a property league held successful Bengaluru.
They urged the authorities to instantly retreat the task and make authorities schools that endure owed to a deficiency of resources and facilities.
‘Anti-education’ stance
Stating that the determination would effect successful respective agrarian schools being unopen down, they noted that lone 6,000 KPS magnet schools (one per panchayat) were planned by the government.
“Already, orders person been issued successful Honganur of Channapatna to merge schools that person steadfast enrolments of 50, 70, 80, and 100 students. Furthermore, the circular mentions that providing proscription to these magnet schools is the work of the School Development and Monitoring Committee, efficaciously shifting the load connected to them. Serious and shocking points person emerged successful the circular, which suggest that schoolhouse operations volition beryllium outsourced and that schools indispensable make their ain income. Corporate donations are being sought to unfastened the KPS Magnet schools, which fell a conspiracy to manus implicit these schools to backstage ownership successful the coming days,” they criticised.
‘Cheap labour for factories’
The activists besides condemned the compulsory vocational acquisition from people VI successful KPS schools.
“By preparing a program successful concern with industries to thatch tasks specified arsenic making clay lamps, peeling areca nuts, and tailoring, the authorities has hatched a crippled to propulsion the children of farmers and labourers backmost into factories arsenic inexpensive labour,” said a associated connection from the organisations.
Veena Nayak, State president, AISF; Manjunath, secretary, AISF Bangalore; Vijay Kumar T.S. State secretary, SFI; Subhash Bettadakoppa, State treasurer, AIDSO; Vinay Chandra, State secretariat member, AIDSO; Sushant, District Board Member, AISA; and Durgesh, State secretary, KVS, were present.
