Over 10,000 students belonging to BJP’s student wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) from across the state on Thursday staged ‘Akrosh’ rally against the state government in Shimla.
The students were demanding resumption of students' elections, abolition of semester system in colleges under Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) and shunning wrong practices of selecting teachers.
Addressing the rally at Shimla, ABVP national general secretary Vinay Bidre said if the systems are causing threats, then the students shouldn’t hesitate from the changing these. “ABVP is not against any party in the country, but we are against the wrong systems imposed on the student community,” he said.
He said that the state government had launched the RUSA education system in colleges in haste which had now become a curse for students. “Neither the students nor the faculty of colleges are acquainted with this system, causing a lot of hardship and inconvenience to students. This system has not been implemented in true spirits and lack of requisite infrastructure has become a bane in government colleges,” he said.
Bidre said that there are lakhs of vacancies in the Higher Education in the country and same is the case with over 100 colleges of the Himachal Pradesh.
He criticised the state government for recruiting teachers without following proper norms to benefit near and dear ones and said the government is enticing unemployed youth with allowances but the youth wants jobs not any unemployment allowance.
He said the private institutions in the state were looting the students by flouting norms and charging exorbitant fees. “The state government should put place a strong system to check the loot of private institutions, but existing Regulatory Commission has become a safe haven for retired employees,” he said, adding only educationists should have been appointed in the commission.