SFI opposes: New schools

Sunday, June 12, 2011: The Students Federation of India (SFI) has vowed to come out against the decision of the UDF government to give sanction to new ICSE and CBSE schools in the State.

Addressing a press conference on Saturday, SFI State secretary P Biju and State president KV Sumesh Kumar said that the SFI would observe June 15 as ‘Rights-Day’ to draw the attention of the government to a list of 23 education-related rights prepared by SFI to be submitted to the government.

Stating that the United Democratic Front (UDF) had always stood for the commercialization of the education sector in the State, Biju said that the SFI would fight to ensure social justice in all self-financing colleges.

“We will not allow seat-selling in rest of the self-financing colleges after creating façade of furore in the media about the Pariyaram Medical College alone,” said Biju.

He said that the SFI would be forced to launch agitation programmes in all self-financing colleges if at least any one of them was not ready to give 50 per cent of its seats to the government, even if it was the Pariyaram Medical College.