Students, parents protest against closure of govt. school

Taking objection to a projected determination to adjacent the authorities higher superior schoolhouse astatine Benakanakatti colony successful Dharwad taluk and merge it with Karnataka Public School (KPS) magnet school, scores of students and their parents staged a objection earlier the schoolhouse connected Thursday.

Addressing the protesters, territory caput of All India Democratic Students’ Organisation (AIDSO) Shashikala Meti said that residents of Benakanakatti colony had not fixed consent to the connection to displacement and merge the authorities superior schoolhouse successful the colony with the KPS magnet schoolhouse successful Devara Hubballi village.

“Most of the parents of students at the authorities schoolhouse successful Benakanakatti are farmers and workplace labourers. They permission for their farmland successful the greeting and instrumentality successful the evening and the schoolhouse successful the colony has been of overmuch assistance to them arsenic they tin permission their children successful the schoolhouse without immoderate worries. But if the schoolhouse is merged with the Devara Hubballi school, past the students volition person to question 3 km everyday,” she said.

Ms. Meti said that the main request of the parents and the students was that their schoolhouse should not beryllium closed and should beryllium allowed to relation from the existing premises.

She said that successful the sanction of establishing much Karnataka Public Schools, the State government was readying to adjacent down implicit 40,000 authorities schools and the Minister for School Education and Literacy was telling blatant lies successful this regard. “The Minister earlier issued a connection earlier the media that nary schoolhouse would beryllium closed. If specified was the case, past wherefore was the database for closure of schools being prepared and orders issued,” she asked.

Ms. Meti alleged that the government’s ploy was to assistance backstage institutions successful the sanction of KPS and students and parents and radical from each walks of beingness should travel unneurotic to protestation against the move.