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SIO offers to support additional Plus One batches

MALAPPURAM: The Students Islamic Organisation of India (SIO) has come forward to help the higher secondary students who joined the Plus One batches additionally sanctioned by the State Government in 57 schools in the district.

SIO office-bearers said here on Thursday that they had evolved a package to provide logistical backup not only to the 107 additional higher secondary batches but the 31 vocational higher secondary batches as well.

They said infrastructural facilities would be set up with the help of the public at schools that did not have the wherewithal to provide infrastructure.

The SIO made the proposal in the wake of the reluctance of certain school managements to start additional batches owing to a lack of infrastructural facilities. SIO district vice-president V.M. Safirali and general secretary Basim Santhapuram said the Government should address the concerns of the students who joined the additional batches months after the classes started. They said the District Panchayat authorities should provide the infrastructure in government schools where additional batches were sanctioned.

They called upon the students who had already remitted fees for admission through the State Open School to choose the additional batches of Plus One. Private students stand to lose many things enjoyed by the mainstream, regular students, they said.

Unlike regular higher secondary students, they said, private students do not get internal marks, various scholarships, and grace marks through participation in school arts and games. “Due to of this, private students lag behind their regular counterparts for admission to higher courses,” SIO leaders said. They demanded that parent-teacher associations (PTAs) should give concessions to deserving students who join the additional batches. The SIO will raise funds to help the students in cases of PTA inabilities, they said.

The SIO will also arrange extra tuition on holidays for the students to make up for the delay in their admission.

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