Patna, September 10:
The government of our country has been following the policy
of curtailment of the scope of education since independence. This policy is
continued till today adding more fuel of making it a saleable commodity.
Privatization and commercialization of education have snatched the right of
getting education for the whole community of students in general and students
from lower and middle class families in particular. The foundation of education
from its primary level is being destroyed by introducing grading system and
abolishing pass-fail system. This is not the all. Sex education at school level
is being introduced and obscure films and literatures are being propagated as
well in order to break the backbone of the students. Following the same anti
education policy of the union government the Bihar government is also shrinking
the responsibility of proving education to its students. The state government
is failing miserably in fulfilling the basic necessities of educational
institutions. The attacks are being mounted on democratic rights of the
students. The rights of students to re-evaluate the answer scripts are
abolished. The sessions of almost all the universities are irregular. Educational
institutions are facing acute crisis of teachers, non teaching staffs, toilets,
laboratories, libraries and hostels. Semester system is being introduced in
colleges in order to destroy the analytical and logical minds of the students.
Education has gone out of the reach of the common students by enhancing the
fees at all levels. The All India Democratic Students Organization (AIDSO) has
been waging struggle against all these anti education policies and moves since
its inception. The Bihar State Committee of the organization has taken the
issues to the students and tried to make them aware of the attacks on
education. The organization planned to hold a massive demonstration of students
before Governor of Bihar and submit its charter of demands.
Following institutional and local level movements the All
India Committee has called a protest week from 10 September to 17 September.
Responding to this call the Bihar State Committee has organized a massive
students demonstration on 10 September in Patna. Students from almost all the universities of
the state and different districts paraded the streets of the capital with
thundering slogans against anti education policies of the government. The huge
procession reached at R-Block after traversing the main thoroughfare of the
city. In spite of rain the well decorated, disciplined procession and the
militant slogan of the students caught the attention of the commuters.
Addressing the gathering at R-Block, Ashok Mishra, General
Secretary, AIDSO, said, “ The promise by PM Narendra Modi to bring good days through
strengthening the quality of education is totally in vain. This government is
executing the policies of the previous Congress led UPA government more
cunningly under the garb of high sounding catchy slogans. More than 9 lakhs teacher
posts at primary and more than 60 per cent teacher posts at higher education
are lying vacant since long. Due to the acute crisis of teachers the
teaching-learning system is totally jeopardized. The Modi government manifested its criminal
negligence towards it. This government can allocate two hundred crore rupees to
build the statue of Sardar Ballav Bhai Patel but for education allocation is
less than two per cent of GDP. This government is not ready to tolerate an iota
of scientific, secular and democratic education. The most unscientific, obscurantist,
communal, raciest and outdated discourse of Dinanath Batra, a RSS ideologue is
being implemented in Gujrat and PM Narendra Modi has declared to introduce this
course in whole country. At the same
time the fascistic attack is intensified on the democratic rights of the
students and teaching community. The respective state governments are following
the same path, Bihar is not exception. But braving the attack of police, para
military forces and the administration backed hooligans the students of the
entire country are bursting forth in militant movements.” In this regard Shri Mishra congratulated the brave
students of Patna University whose heroic movement has rocked the whole
country. To save education student movement on the edifice of higher culture is
the only alternative before the students. He urged the students to build up
might and sustained movements and to strengthen the only revolutionary student
organization the AIDSO.
Among others Gopla
Sahu, Vice President, All India Committee, Anil Kumar, Secretary, Bihar State
Committee, Vikash Kumar, Vice President, Bihar State Committee, Raushan Kumar,
Secretariat Member, Bihar State Committee, Lal Kumar from Darbhanga, Ashutosh
Kumar and Shivchandra Paswan from Muzaffarpur, Saroj Kumar Suman from Patna and
Deepak Kumar from Arwal also spoke on the occasion. Later on a ten member
delegation led by Anil Kumar, Secretary, Bihar State Committee submitted a
memorandum to the Governor.
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