Rajahmundry: Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) southern region secretary P. Chandrasekhar has alleged that the State Government is hand-in-glove with the managements of corporate colleges, which are minting money through commercialisation of education.

Addressing a press conference here on Monday, he cited an example about Intermediate education for which private or corporate colleges were collecting Rs. 40,000 to Rs. 60,000 per annum, whereas engineering education cost Rs. 22,000 per annum. He said the Government had become a silent spectator and was unable to control corporate colleges. It was paying no heed to the demands of ABVP and other student organisations.

Scholarships

Mr. Chandrasekhar, who was here to oversee arrangements for the ABVP State conference to be held in January, pointed out that the State Government was yet to release scholarship funds for Schedule Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Backward Class students. This was leading to poor students discontinuing their education, he claimed and attributed this to corruption in the Social Welfare Department.

Speaking on the naxal issue, he alleged that the Congress Government, by lifting the ban on Maoists, had given the militants enough time to strengthen their organisation and also purchase arms and ammunition. He also charged some political leaders in the Government and outside with backing the Maoists and that was the reason for the increase in naxal violence in the State.

State conference

The ABVP leader claimed that his organisation had a strong hold in Sri Venkateswara and Nagarjuna universities and it was mainly fighting on student issues and social evils as well. He said the ABVP State conference will be held on January 7 and 8 in Rajahmundry to mark the organisation's silver jubilee this year. Some 1,500 delegates were expected for the conference.

ABVP State convener K.S. Sastry, reception committee chairman Bommana Rajkumar and others were present.

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