JOIN USStaging a protest in Mulbagal here on Wednesday, the members alleged that this arrangement would benefit the private Colleges in a large way.
By giving away 5 per cent of the Engineering seats to private College, as many as 2,750 seats will be reduced in the Government quota and an increase of about 2 per cent seats, would only mean an increase of 80 seats in the Medical quota.
Already the CET examinations were going on and the by the time the counselling would begin the Government should revoke back the seat-sharing ratio and hike in the fees. Otherwise, it would become inevitable for the SFI to stage a state-wide protest, the members threatened.
Commercialisation
They further alleged that the State government is all set to commercialise education by deceiving the poor people of the benefits of higher education. In order to control the private professional educational institutions, the Government should implement central rule.
They also urged the Government to release the subsidy which was due to the students for the last two years and also, the release of scholarships which had not been granted to the SC/ST students for the last three years. The Government should also initiate action against the private college administrative councils which were ignoring social justice.
The Government should stop giving permission to begin new private colleges and should instead establish its own colleges, the protesters urged.
After the protest the SFI members took out a procession, which later on, culminated in front of the tahsildar’s office, were the protesting SFI members submitted a memorandum to Tahsildar Harishilpa. District president of the Students Federation of India Shettyganahalli V Ambareesh, district vice-president N Ambareesh, students’ leader Subramani and several others took part in the protest.