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Students Federation of India supporters staging a dharna in protest against the controversy over admissions to professional colleges, in Bangalore on Wednesday. — Photo: Sampath Kumar G.P.
BANGALORE, AUG. 25. As the State Government and private professional college managements were busy sorting out the fee issue, student organisations took to the streets once again on Wednesday. Demanding a central legislation to resolve the admission issue and increase in budgetary allocation for education, over 500 students attached to the Students Federation of India (SFI) organised a "Raj Bhavan Chalo" march and sat on dharna at the Basaveshwara Circle. The SFI State unit president, K.S. Lakshmi, blamed the "irresponsibility" of the State and Union governments' on the admissions issue for students' suicides. She said the National Democratic Alliance Government had failed to pass a law after the Supreme Court gave its judgment in T.M.A. Pai case. The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government would meet the same fate if it did not enact a law soon. The SFI State secretary, R. Ramakrishna, wanted the State Government to set aside 10 per cent of its budgetary allocation for higher education. With dwindling funds, degree colleges were facing problems of staff shortage and inadequate infrastructure, he said. The Minister for Higher Education, D. Manjunath, later visited the protest site and assured the protesters that the Government would look into their demands. He said the Government would start new medical and dental colleges next year. The SFI leaders then met the Governor, T.N. Chaturvedi, and submitted a memorandum to him, seeking a central legislation.
ABVP dharna
Meanwhile, the dharna by activists of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) demanding government college fees for 50 per cent of seats in all professional colleges entered the second day. Some students of the M.L.A. College joined the protest outside the CET Cell on Wednesday. Student leaders from many colleges participated in a meeting called by ABVP to discuss the "Karnataka Bandh" called by it on August 28. The parishad's State secretary, Ravi Kumar, reiterated the demand for a reduction in fee structure or an allocation of Rs. 65 crore by the State Government to subsidise the fee for weaker and merited students.
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