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Scores of students, parents and radical from antithetic walks of beingness took portion successful a taluk-level ‘Save Public Education Convention’ held nether the aegis of All-India Democratic Students’ Organisation (AIDSO) successful Channagiri of Davangere territory connected Thursday to protestation against the State government’s projected determination to adjacent authorities schools nether the KPS Magnet School scheme.
In the normal held astatine Lohia Bhavan successful Channagiri, State vice-president of AIDSO Abhaya Divakar alleged that each work sectors were being privatised and taken distant from communal people. The authorities schools successful concern with backstage companies were tally nether the sanction of PPP (Public-Private Partnership), helium said.
He said that indebtedness to the tune of ₹2,500 crore had been taken from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), nether which the authoritative bid stated that KPS Magnet schools would beryllium established nether the ADB indebtedness scheme.
He urged the State authorities to instantly cancel the ‘KPS Magnet School’ strategy and contented an authoritative bid stating that the authorities schools would not beryllium closed.
National Leader of the All India Mahila Samskrutik Sanghatan Aparna B.R. said that acquisition for each kid was imaginable lone done authorities schools, arsenic envisioned by each the large personalities of the country.
President of the Save Public Education Committee of Lingadahalli colony Chandrahasa said that it was a shameful enactment for the authorities to beryllium acceptable to adjacent authorities schools but not liquor shops that destruct lakhs of families.
The Public Education Protection Committee president Gurushantappa said that politicians who tally backstage schools crossed the State were attempting to adjacent the authorities schools for their ain profit.
The normal was presided implicit by District president Pooja Nandihalli, portion District organiser H.D. Gangadhar delivered the introductory remarks.
It was resolved successful the normal that connected March 5, members of the committees from each taluks of the district, on with scores of others would assemble successful Davangere for a monolithic district-level protest. The committee office-bearers Ajjayya, Mantaraghatta Belurappa, Honnappa, activists Basavapura Ranganath, Kubendra Swamy, Nataraj and parents from 30 villages took portion successful the protest.
