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Women crossed Vijayapura territory created Rangoli designs, successful protestation against the State government’s plans to acceptable up a aesculapian assemblage nether PPP mode successful Vijayapura.
They began successful the greeting and created designs successful nationalist places, roads, successful beforehand of authorities offices and unfastened grounds and turned nationalist spaces into canvases of resistance. Such designs were created successful astatine 25 places successful Vijayapura and 16 places successful different taluks.
Women decorated the large postulation intersections and roundabouts with rangolis carrying the slogan of Save Vijayapura District Hospital and Demand Government Medical College. Handbills were distributed, and women engaged citizens successful conversations astir the dangers of privatisation.
Women marched from the 25 locations and converged connected Ambedkar Circle. They raised slogans against the PPP exemplary aesculapian assemblage and the determination to transportation the territory hospital, onshore of astir 150 acres, unit and different infrastructure to backstage agencies. Leaders of the Jana Vedike and Karnataka Jana arogya Chaluvali addressed the protesters.
The protestation by Vijayapura Sarkari Vaidyakeya College Sthapana Horata Samithi against the PPP exemplary assemblage is present entering the 60th day. We are powerfully opposed to the government’s connection to manus implicit the District Hospital and aesculapian acquisition institutions to backstage entities nether the PPP model. This is our vibrant and colorful rangoli protest, they said.
We are with the samithi’s ongoing and indefinite conflict to acceptable up a authorities aesculapian assemblage successful Vijayapura. Women leaders shared their anguish and choler implicit the soundlessness of the 8 MLAs contempt 2 months of indefinite protest.
Farzana Jamaadar said that the affluent and almighty successful nine did not privation the children of the mediocre to get educated and participate professions specified arsenic medicine. “We volition support our children’s close to go doctors. We are mediocre regular wage workers. But that doesn’t mean our children volition enactment that way. We privation them to participate professions specified arsenic medicine,” she said.
Jayashree Jadhav, erstwhile president of the Ainapur-M Gram Panchayat said that the territory infirmary is not for merchantability and that they would not let its privatisation. Lalitha Bajjaragi, subordinate of the samithi, said that this was a historical time successful the ongoing conflict wherever hundreds of women descended connected the streets and utilized their creation into protest.
Teena Xavier of Karnataka Janaarogya Chaluvali said that this women had lone fixed a “test dose” to the authorities by the Rangoli protest. If the powers that beryllium did not respond, women were acceptable to intensify the protests, she said.
Akhila Vasan of Karnataka Janaarogya Chaluvali commended the women for getting connected to the streets and said that they are an inspiration for the 8 different districts to follow. She added that the authorities had ignored each grounds against PPP successful wellness attraction and pushing specified unsafe policies connected the citizens. Susheela Shivraj Rathod, Bharatah Kumar, Deepa Ramu Rathod and Geeta besides spoke astatine the protest.
Kavitha Pawar, Muthu Bovi, Lakshmi Santosh Nagtanand Kevin Sequeira were present. They said that a squad from the Samithi was gathering the Chief Minister tomorrow. Based connected the result of the gathering women decided they would program their adjacent people of action.
In the taluks, women chose sixteen locations for the ‘Rangoli Chaluvali’. Women gathered signatures for the missive to the Chief Minister demanding reversal of determination to handover the territory infirmary and the PPP aesculapian college. They marched from each the antithetic locations to the tahasildar offices and submitted the submitted memorandum done the tahasildar to the Chief Minister.
They announced that women successful 12 gram panchayat villages volition proceed this protestation and widen it to the agrarian communities starting from Wednesday.
