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The All India Democratic Students’ Organisation (AIDSO), on with the Save Public Education Committee, connected Tuesday released a poster announcing a mega State-level nationalist normal against the KPS Magnet Scheme successful Mysuru.
The convention, themed “Save Our Village Schools”, is scheduled to beryllium held astatine Freedom Park successful Bengaluru connected April 10, wherever thousands of students, parents, and citizens are expected to enactment successful a protestation against the alleged closure and merger of authorities schools.
The AIDSO alleged that the authorities is attempting to unopen down astir 40,000 colony schools nether the guise of the KPS Magnet Scheme, informing that the determination would adversely impact entree to acquisition for children from agrarian and economically weaker sections.
“In the past 4 months, important absorption has emerged crossed villages, with parents and locals forming ‘Save Public Education Struggle Committees’ to reason schoolhouse closures. Villagers are agreed successful their request that section schools indispensable not beryllium unopen down,” the AIDSO leaders told reporters aft releasing the poster.
Despite nationalist criticism, the authorities has proceeded with mapping exercises to place schools for merger, and officials person been directed to behaviour surveys for Magnet schools, they alleged, successful a statement.
They further claimed that headmasters of affected schools person received verbal instructions, portion notices person been issued to unit parents during meetings scheduled connected April 8 and 9 to displacement their children to the KPS schools successful the coming world year.
The connection from the AIDSO besides stated that a gathering of district-level acquisition officials, including DDPIs and BEOs, was held connected April 1 for implementing the scheme.
Calling the determination “anti-people and autocratic”, the AIDSO and allied organisations warned of intensifying their agitation nether the slogan “Let our colony schools survive”, with the April 10 normal expected to service arsenic a large level to mobilise support.
Several salient writers, educationists, activists, and leaders from farmers’, labour, youth, and women’s organisations are expected to enactment successful the convention.
Organisers said that hundreds of participants from Mysuru territory are preparing to be the normal successful Bengaluru.
Social activistic Ugra Narasimhe Gowda, AIDSO territory president Chandrakala, territory caput Nithin, and others were contiguous astatine the property conference.
