The Hindu : Campaign for `common school system'

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Wednesday, Mar 03, 2004

Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu - Madurai

Campaign for `common school system'

By Our Staff Reporter

MADURAI, MARCH 2 . A nationwide campaign has been launched to impress upon the political parties and the Government the need for a `common school system' for the whole country that "will remove all inequalities in the current system."

The Tamil Nadu Alliance for Right to Education and Equity (TAFRE) is taking up the demand with various representatives.It will hold a public meeting here on March 2 to demand that the quality of educational infrastructure in rural areas be enhanced, and the age for compulsory education be increased to 18 years from the present 14.

Talking to presspersons here on Monday, C. Jim Jesudoss and P. Kandavel of the TAFRE said the discrimination in facilities was unfair, when all students took up the same examination. A common system would go a long way in setting right the imbalances. Children in rural areas were deprived of better infrastructure, unlike the urban students, who enjoyed good facilities in the private educational institutions.

The campaign was launched under the banner of the National Alliance for Fundamental Right to Education.

They claimed that the privatisation of education had hit the rural students, especially those of municipal and Corporation schools. They also sought an increase in the budgetary allocation for education, and appealed to the parties to include these demands in the election manifestoes to remove the disparities between a `big school and small school' and government and private schools.

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