The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) is going to have a mega rally of students on September 11 in Bhubaneswar protesting the deterioration of higher education in the State and in support of a 12-point charter of demand.
ABVP State organising secretary Tanmay Das said here that the demands include to strengthen infrastructure of all colleges, transfer of the existing land of the colleges in their respective names, filling up of all vacant posts of faculty, payment of full grant to colleges instead of Block Grant, to make university campuses free from politics and hooligans, revision and increase of fellowships/scholarships of SC/ST students and development, renovation of PG hostels of colleges and universities, hassle-free permission to colleges to open new streams, to make the examination system of all the Autonomous Colleges more disciplined, to notify the fee structure for all technical education much before counselling and to grant Central University status to one of the universities of the State.
Das alleged that while the Central Government has sanctioned one after another leading national level institutions of excellence like IIM, IIT, NISER, ISER, the State Government has failed to provide basic infrastructure to colleges and universities in terms of faculty, library, space, laboratory, equipments and so on. It is the lack of willpower of the State Government and the elected representatives that has made the higher education scenario horrible.
The ABVP has prepared a booklet entitled Kalapharda (Black Paper) on the education scenario which would be distributed during its Bhubaneswar rally, Das said. ABVP national secretary Sreehari Borikar is likely to address the rally, and thereafter a copy of the charter of demands would be submitted to the Chief Minister.
The ABVP has earlier already submitted the charter to the district administrations, Higher Education Minister and Secretary, Chief Minister and Governor, but there has been no response to it, Das rued
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