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Vedika opposes `water business'

Staff Reporter

ELURU: The Jana Vignana Vedika will devise a long-term plan against making water a commodity during its three-day State conference scheduled to be held here from Friday, according to its State unit president M. Geyanand and general secretary V. Balasubramanyam.

Addressing a press conference here, they expressed serious concern over the alarming levels of contamination of drinking water sources and over-exploitation of underground water. Water is prospective business in many parts of the State, they regretted.

Education as trade

The conference will focus on the need for a movement against corporatisation of education. The Government has allowed its primary schools to die a natural death by abolishing 22,000 teacher posts in the name of rationalisation. This led to a spurt in the growth of corporate schools across the State, they observed.

The outbreak of malaria in the agency tracts, claiming the lives of several tribals, brought to the fore the need for a massive movement to ensure that health care is made accessible to the poor and disadvantaged sections.

Mr. Geyanand said the conference would deliberate on the unscientific beliefs in the public on vastu, astrology and practice of fish medicine for treatment of asthma.

In the face of the High Court's ruling that fish medicine is unscientific, they wanted the Government to promote scientific temper among people on this score.

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