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Residents of immoderate villages successful Belagavi territory staged protests against the State government’s connection to merge agrarian schools with Karnataka Public Schools nether the magnet schools scheme.
In Hallur and Honnihal villages, students and parents joined the demonstrations organsied by AIDSO successful beforehand of authorities schools connected Tuesday and Wednesday. They passed resolutions to cod signatures of villagers and to taxable a petition to the acquisition officers, against the closures of colony schools.
Villagers protested against the government’s determination to adjacent the Hallur schoolhouse and merge it with Sulebavi schoolhouse nether the magnet schools scheme.
They held banners successful beforehand of the colony schoolhouse saying “Our colony schoolhouse is our jewel”.
They vowed not to fto the authorities adjacent their Nammura School for immoderate reason.
Bharamappa Sanadi of the Save the School Committee said that astir of the colony residents are mediocre workers and are uncovering it hard to nonstop their children to schoolhouse owed to poverty.
“If our schoolhouse is closed and our children are forced to spell to different colony for schooling, nary of them tin go. First of all, our colony does not person autobus service. Asking our children to spell to Sulebavi for superior and precocious schoolhouse by autobus is simply a cruel gag connected us. It seems the authorities is playing with the aboriginal of mediocre children by closing down agrarian schools. Most of america spell to enactment astatine 6 a.m. How tin our children instrumentality a autobus to schoolhouse successful different colony astatine that hour? The authorities should not adjacent down our colony school,” helium said.
Parents, villagers and students, including Bharamappa Kaleri, Bharamappa Kanabaragi and Sanju Honakeri, participated successful the protest.
A akin protestation was staged successful Honnihal village. Residents raised slogans against the authorities for its determination to merge agrarian schools with magnet schools.
Bharam Uchagaonkar of the Save the School Committee demanded that some types of schools, agrarian schools and Karnataka Public Schools, indispensable co-exist. “We person been warring for 5 months now. If our colony schoolhouse is closed, our children volition beryllium deprived of education. Let the authorities fortify colony schools by giving indispensable facilities,” helium said.
Villager Shivanna said that astir parents volition beryllium discouraged to nonstop miss students to a schoolhouse successful different village. “As of now, it seems that determination is nary information for girls successful society. Who volition instrumentality work for the information of our young girls if they are to question by autobus to a faraway village? We request that the authorities should reverse its decision,” helium said.
AIDSO territory coordinator Mahantesh Bilur called upon radical to articulation an agitation against closure of agrarian schools.
“Primary acquisition is the precedence for agrarian households. It is easy disposable to each arsenic determination is simply a authorities schoolhouse successful this colony that lies successful the mountains. If this schoolhouse is closed, past each the children of this colony volition beryllium permanently deprived of education. But the authorities is putting a damper connected the dreams of the radical of this colony that their children get bully education. The State authorities should absorption improving the lives of the mediocre and wantonness its determination to adjacent authorities schools successful the villages. “Our protestation volition not halt till the authorities drops the magnet schools scheme,” helium said.
Mr. Bilur said that the authorities is unsighted to the people’s absorption to the scheme. Officials are obtaining signatures of parents by misleading them successful districts similar Ramanagara. In Dharwad Zilla Panchayat, a determination has been taken to adjacent down schools with little students. A database of schools to beryllium closed successful Belagavi has been prepared already. “This is simply a sedate injustice done by the authorities to farmers, workers and each the mediocre people,” helium said.
