Anti-NEP movement should go on: Activist

Tumakuru, NT Bureau: Activist K Dorairaju said that the movement against the National Education Policy (NEP) should continue, adding that it was necessary to save the democratic aspirations of the poor to seek higher education.

He made the comments during the inauguration of All India Democratic Students Organisation (AIDSO) eighth State Level Students Conference in Tumakuru.

“Let the movement of students continue against the NEP, which is against the aspirations of democracy, which deprives education for poor children.”

“Today governments are implementing policies as the puppets of corporate capitalists. This cannot be corrected without movements. History has proved that students are the lifeblood of these historic Movements,” he added.

All India President of AIDSO VN Rajasekhar claimed that the State government had cancelled the NEP as a result of the massive movement across the state with the slogan ‘Save Public Education’.

“But it is alarming that this same government has proposed to merge gover nment schools which are part of NEP and give them to private ones. There is an urgent need for the students to unite and build a massive movement against this as well,” he said.

“The great revolutionaries of this country, Bhagat Singh and Netaji, had hoped that the public education system of the country should be strong. Taking the decision to realize this dream, should be the real hope of the conclusion of the 75th Independence Anniversary,” AIDSO State Secretary Ajay Kamath said.