The Students Federation of India State committee meeting held here on Sunday has decided to hold ‘black flag’ agitations at all district headquarters in the State on July 16 against the commercialisation of education.
The Right to Education Act should be implemented in full.
SFI State secretary J. Rajmohan told reporters that many of the stipulations in the Act like the allocation of 25 per cent of seats to economically weaker section of society were not implemented in letter and spirit.
“Majority of the 12,000 matriculation schools are not even willing to disclose the number of seats falling under the 25 per cent quota in the institution. Only around 3,720 schools have made public the details on the quota seats, and that too only on their web sites. We have been demanding that the schools should display the quota seat details on the campus,” he said.
The SFI said that the tendency to open English medium classes in government schools will make future generations gradually forget Tamil.
Instead, English should be taught as a subject, and the medium of instruction should be Tamil.
Mr. Rajmohan said the State Government should put pressure on the Centre to get the dues of Rs. 1,100 crore earmarked for grants to meet the education expenses of the Scheduled Castes.
“We are planning to lay siege to the Adi Dravidar Department offices in the State on August 5 if the amount was not released at the earliest.
Mr. Rajmohan said the SFI would launch an agitation if the proposed move to allocate a significant portion of Nanjappa Corporation Boys Higher Secondary School to create permanent facilities to hold fairs was not dropped.
“The administration should take back the possession of the buildings which the Rotary Club school was illegally occupying at the Jaiva Bhai Corporation school. Even after an year of the Supreme Court order, the buildings are still in possession of the Rotary school,” he added.
‘Future generations will forget Tamil’
