The educational institutions’ bandh called by the Joint Action committee of various student unions in protest against the alleged apathy of the State government in resolving the multifarious problems confronting the government schools and colleges, evoked good response across the district on Friday.
A majority of the schools and colleges remained closed in the town and other parts of the district, sources said.
Student activists owing allegiance to the SFI, AISF, PDSU, and TVV took out a rally on the main road leading to the Government Women’s Degree College here in support of the bandh.
‘Vacancies not filled’
Addressing the demonstrators, the student union leaders alleged that the TRS government had failed to fill up the vacancies in government schools, colleges and universities across the State in the past three years.
They further charged the government with spending huge sums of money in the name of the development of temples without allocating the requisite funds to the government educational institutions, devoid of proper amenities.
The demonstrators demanded that the government implement mid-day meal scheme in the government junior colleges, initiate the “free KG to PG education” scheme, strengthen the State-run educational institutions and rein in the errant private schools and colleges.
Total in Nizamabad
All high schools and junior colleges remained closed following the bandh observed by different student unions demanding the Government find early solutions to the student issues, in the old district on Friday.
Rallies, protest demonstrations, dharnas and human chains marked their agitation.
Dharna
At the dharna staged at the Collectorate here student leaders said that though the education field was beset with so many problems for quite a long time Government remained silent. Many students were discontinuing education in the middle with an inordinate delay in sanctioning fee reimbursement, they said.
In Adilabad
Private schools in Adilabad were closed on Friday owing to a bandh called by the left wing students unions demanding decrease in fee charged by managements. Students belonging to AISF, SFI, PDSU and TVV took out a rally demanding provision of basic facilities to students.
