All India Students’ Federation (AISF) State general secretary, R. Shivaramakrishna has accused the State government of trying to shirk its responsibility of upgrading infrastructure and filling vacant teacher/lecturer posts in the State-run educational institutions. The demonstrators squatted on the roadside at the Dharna Chowk in pursuit of their charter of demands. Addressing the demonstrators, Mr Shivaramakrishna alleged that the government was contemplating to shut around 4,000 State-run schools in the name of rationalisation and kept thousands of vacancies of teachers unfilled in the government schools for long. ‘Sanction more funds’He demanded that the government sanction adequate funds to overhaul the infrastructure and streamline the functioning of the State-run hostels. They opposed the TRS dispensation’s move to allow establishment of private universities and sought the withdrawal of GO No.

Source: The Hindu July 19, 2019 18:45 UTC