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Scores of students and their parents staged a objection astatine Varuna successful Mysuru taluk connected December 6 to prevention 2 authorities schools that could beryllium merged with Karnataka Public Schools (KPS).
The objection was led by All India Democratic Students’ Organisation (AIDSO), which is opposed to the argumentation of merging adjacent authorities schools with section KPS that whitethorn person amended facilities.
Two schools that are threatened with the closure oregon merger are the Government Higher Primary Schools successful Puttegowdanahundi and Hosahundi villages.
AIDSO activists said that some villages are successful Varuna Assembly constituency, represented by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, and it was ironical that the schools determination are facing the menace of closure oregon merger.
AIDSO District Secretary Nitin addressed the students and public, saying that the government, nether the guise of the KPS-Magnet scheme, is claiming to found 1 authorities schoolhouse per gram panchayat and moving towards closing implicit 40,000 authorities schools successful the State.
As portion of this scheme, the authorities has announced that it volition upgrade Varakodu Government Higher Primary School to a KPS schoolhouse and merge the Government Higher Primary Schools of Puttegowdanahundi and Hosahundi villages into the Varakodu school, efficaciously closing them, helium added.
Expressing interest implicit the developments, Mr. Nitin said that the Government Higher Primary School astatine Puttegowdanahundi has a spot of 91 students, astir of whom are children of farmers and labourers.
Under the KPS-Magnet schoolhouse scheme, 1,662 authorities schools successful Mysuru territory look the menace of the merger, which is thing but closure, helium added.
Villagers stated that the caller gathering for the Government Higher Primary School astatine Puttegowdanahundi was inaugurated precocious and they would not nonstop their children to the Varakodu schoolhouse arsenic it was six kilometres away.
A genitor said that the colony schoolhouse was built connected onshore donated by a philanthropist and hence, the section assemblage has an affectional transportation with it.
Villagers warned that they volition not let the schoolhouse to beryllium handed implicit to self-help groups successful immoderate condition and threatened to clasp a massive protestation successful lawsuit the schoolhouse is closed.
