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Ashwini KS, the state president of AIDSO, called for the implementation of the educational philosophies of India’s Renaissance pioneers and freedom fighters such as Ishwara Chandra Vidyasagar, Savitribai Phule, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, and Bhagat Singh.
She released a student manifesto outlining the aspirations of students in light of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections during a press conference at the press club on Wedensday.
Addressing the Media, Ajay Kamath, the state secretary of the organization, criticized the commercialization and exorbitant costs of education, citing policies like the Rajiv Gandhi government’s education policy of 1986 and the Modi government’s NEP 2020. He condemned the trend of privatization and corporatization in education, alleging that public educational institutions are being financially marginalized under NEP 2020.
The demands include revoking NEP-2020 and formulating a pro-people education policy, allocating 10% of the central budget and 30% of the state budget for education, halting the closure of government schools, expanding government educational institutions, ensuring equitable distribution of educational grants and scholarships, abolishing the four-year degree course, providing free bus passes to all students, incorporating real scientific knowledge into the curriculum, integrating the life stories of national icons, prohibiting the establishment of private and foreign universities, increasing funding for the midday meal scheme, preventing fee hikes in colleges, addressing staffing shortages in teaching and non-teaching positions, opposing the self-financing education system, offering free coaching for entrance exams, allocating 3% of the public budget and 3% of the total GDP for research, and establishing government engineering colleges in all districts of the state.
