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Bidar
By Our Staff Correspondent
By Our Staff Correspondent BIDAR, JULY 28. Members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishat staged a protest in Bidar on Wednesday demanding that the government fee structure be continued for 50 per cent of the seats in professional colleges in the State. The protestors took out a procession in the town, formed a "human chain" at the Ambedkar Circle and Mahaveer Circle and then submitted a memorandum to the Deputy Commissioner. Addressing the students, Prabhudev Kapagal, divisional organising secretary of the parishat, said over 70 per cent of students in professional colleges came from the poor and middleclass families. They found it nearly impossible to pay the fees recommended by the committee constituted by the Government, he said. Even class one officials who lived only on their salaries would find it difficult to send their sons or daughters to engineering, medical, dental or other professional colleges. Children of farmers would never be able to get higher education, if the new fee structure was implemented, Mr. Kapagal said. He demanded that the government fee structure — "Rs. 16,200 for medical seats, Rs. 13,900 for dental seats and Rs. 8,590 for engineering seats" — be implemented as far as 50 per cent of seats in these colleges was concerned. He thanked the Chief Minister, N. Dharam Singh, the Deputy Chief Minister, Siddaramaiah, and the members of the Legislative Assembly and the Legislative Council for unanimously passing the resolution to enact a law fixing the quota of government seats in professional colleges at 75:25 in the favour of the Government. The parishat leaders, Shashidhar Hosalli, Shivakumar Biradar, Sitaram Puttur, Veeresh Jantikar, Avinash Patil, Praveen Ekalare, led the protest.
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