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Students and parents connected Wednesday staged a protestation extracurricular the Government Higher Primary School astatine Hosa Yaragudi colony successful Ballari taluk demanding that the schoolhouse beryllium protected from closure and opposing its projected merger nether the State government’s Karnataka Public Schools scheme.
The protestation was organised nether the enactment of All India Democratic Students Organisation (AIDSO) with villagers, parents and schoolchildren participating successful ample numbers.
Addressing the protesters, AIDSO territory vice-president Shanti said that the Hosa Yaragudi authorities schoolhouse is the lone nationalist schoolhouse disposable for children from mediocre families successful the village.
“If this schoolhouse is closed and students are forced to be a magnet school, however tin five-year-old children locomotion implicit a kilometre each day?” she asked.
She pointed retired that villagers earlier collectively struggled to repair the attack roadworthy to the schoolhouse erstwhile its information deteriorated and besides demanded that the schoolhouse beryllium upgraded to see classes up to eight.
“More than 150 students are enrolled here. The parents, who are mostly farmers and daily-wage labour, powerfully reason the closure of this school,” she said.
Referring to societal reformers Jyotirao Phule and Savitribai Phule, Ms. Shanti said that they devoted their lives to spreading acquisition among the oppressed, Dalits and women.
She besides recalled the imaginativeness of state fighters specified arsenic Bhagat Singh and Subhas Chandra Bose who believed that providing acquisition to each kid calved successful Independent India is the work of the State.
“Successive governments, alternatively of strengthening nationalist education, are depriving children from mediocre families of their close to schooling and pushing nine further into darkness,” she said.
Calling for a agreed struggle, she urged radical to fortify the Public Education Protection Committee and motorboat a almighty question to safeguard and amended authorities schools.
She appealed to radical to emergence supra caste and spiritual divisions and defy the privatisation of acquisition by gathering a caller wide question to support nationalist education.
AIDSO territory caput Kambali Manjunath, members Kantesh and Tippeswamy, School Development and Monitoring Committee president Nagamma, Government School Protection Committee president Parvati, caput Ambanna, members Shekhar, Pothappa, Lakshmamma, colony elders, students and parents were among those who took portion successful the protest.
