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MLCs stage protest

HYDERABAD: Several members of the Legislative Council and representatives of teachers’ organisations have demanded that the State Government withdraw its move to involve corporate houses in the setting up of rural residential schools.

The members led by Chukka Ramaiah, MLC representing teachers, staged “satyagraha” on Tuesday demanding that the Government desist from the move which they said amounted to privatisation of school education.

Their demonstration was at Gun Park in front of the Public Gardens, housing the Jubilee Hall where the Government was signing memorandum of understanding with private sector for setting up these schools.

Opposition leader N. Chandrababu Naidu, BJP State president Bandaru Dattatreya, CPI MP S. Sudhakar Reddy and TRS legislator N. Narsimha Reddy who called on the agitated leaders expressed their solidarity with them.

They faulted the Government’s decision to invite investments from private sector in school education as the private players would work with profit motives and “commercialise” education.

Addressing the participants earlier, Mr. Ramaiah and MLCs K. Nageshwar, D. Rami Reddy and P. Sudhakar Reddy called upon the people to protest against the Government’s moves to hand over lands to corporate bodies in the name of rural residential schools.

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