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SFI opposes cut in education allocation

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI DEC. 30. Quick to react to the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee's statement vis-a-vis removal of subsidies for higher education, the Students Federation of India (SFI) today sought to remind him about the NDA manifesto in which the nation had been promised 10 per cent allocation for education. In an open letter to the Prime Minister, the SFI president, P. Krishnaprasad, questioned the logic in Mr. Vajpayee's argument that the removal of subsidies for higher education would make it more accessible to the poor.

Of the view that Mr. Vajpayee's proposal to make the rich pay for education sounded well, he said it contradicted the Government's fiscal policy of more tax concessions to the rich.

Mr. Vajpayee had advocated replacing the existing fee structure with a system wherein the rich pay fair value for education that it became more accessible to the poor through `merit-cum-means' scholarships or educational loans in his inaugural address at the start of the golden jubilee year of the University Grants Commission here this past Saturday. As an alternative, Mr. Krishnaprasad has suggested that instead of increasing the fee for higher education, the rich should be taxed accordingly to make higher education widely available to the poor.

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