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ABVP against mandatory B.Ed. plan for college lecturers

Staff Correspondent

‘Alternatively, a specialised teachers’ training course could be designed’

Campaigns to be held in districts opposing the move
ABVP to observe Anti-Terrorism Week from March 3

Chitradurga: The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) has called for a symbolic protest on Tuesday in protest against the Government’s proposal to make it mandatory for college teachers with a postgraduate degree to have a B.Ed. degree too.

Addressing presspersons here on Sunday, ABVP State president Srinivas Balli said the decision in regard to the protest was taken at the recently concluded State committee meeting.

He said instead of making it mandatory for new recruits to have B.Ed. degrees, the Government should ensure that a new teachers’ training course be evolved to specifically enable them to teach pre-university students. “The Government could start a course on the lines of the one being conducted at the Technical Teachers’ Training Institute (TTTI) in Tamil Nadu and Punjab, he suggested.

Scholarship

“The specialised course will enhance the teaching skills and help students understand the subject easily,” he said. Reacting to the Union Government’s decision to extend scholarships to those Schedule Castes and Schedule Tribe students, who had scored 60 per cent and above in their examinations, Mr. Balli said the decision went against the Government’s own policies aimed at improving education levels.

‘Purpose defeated’

“On the one hand, through the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, the Government aims at increasing literacy, but on the other was making rules to negate the very purpose of educational advancement.

The ABVP will oppose this decision by holding State-wide campaigns in front of the offices of the deputy commissioner in the districts, on February 29,” Mr. Balli said.

On the arrest of suspected terrorists in the State, he said the ABVP would observe an “Anti-Terrorism Week” from March 3 across the State, in educational institutions.

Campaign

As students and the youth had a greater role to play in containing terrorist activities in educational institutions, they would be educated about this growing tendency through handbills and pamphlets, he said.

State secretary of ABVP Ravichandra and State joint secretary Sridhar Maradihalli were present.

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