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Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (NM)

Mangalore, Jun 30: Members of the Akhila Bharathiya Vidyarthi Parishat (ABVP) staged a protest at Bunts Hostel Circle on Saturday June 30, demanding immediate solutions to the problems in the education sector.

Addressing the agitators, K Ramesh, ABVP state secretary, said that the government has been showing a keen interest in constructing new educational projects and universities.  

“However, unabated problems of some old government schools are being neglected,” he said.

“Progress in higher education has totally declined as Sadananda Gowda; the chief minister, has kept more than 30 portfolios for himself, especially the higher education department,” said Ramesh.

In addition, the protestors demanded that there be uniformity in the timetable in all the universities in Karnataka and to bring down the 10 percent rise in entrance fee of CET to what it was before and to stop the policy of donation and the tuition market. They also requested the building of an information centre of academicians, parents, and students.

They alleged that last year as many as 600 seats were blocked and hence the protestors demanded that transparency be brought in, in the method of allocation of seats and stop the malpractice of blocking the seats of CET and PGCET.  

By building a human barricade, the agitators blocked traffic for some time as a part of the protest.