The public meeting/conventions/ organized by Janamunnettam along with many Civil Society organizations, on 25th and 26th of January 2010, concluded successfully in 7 districts of Kerala.( we are not able to conduct programs in Pathanamthitta as per the plan since the Police refuse give Sanction). The call for a public gathering to uphold constitutional values and protest against kerala government’s educational policies which negate the educational rights of the poor by declaring 3414 Schools are uneconomic, received tremendous responds from the civil society. With in the limited span of time we are able mobilize more than 25 organizations as the co organizers of the programs. An average of 200 people participated in each district. Organizations and peoples also express their solidarity through phones, Emails, SMS etc.
Tuesday 26 January 2010
Friday 22 January 2010
Is Education for the poor ‘uneconomic’?
PUBLIC GATHERING
ON
25th January 2010
JANAMUNEETAM-KERALA
The recent educational policies of Kerala Government tend to negate the educational rights of the poor. The education department has already announced that 3414 schools which having most of the students from economically and socially backward communities, are ‘uneconomic’. The department has also released the list of uneconomic schools in all the 14 districts. The low number of students in these schools is the reason behind defining them as` uneconomic’. But it is shocking that a large number of students are being enrolled in unaided/privet schools which are mushrooming all over surrounding of these schools.
We have to realize that this trend is an indication of gradually closing down of schools where most of the children from Dalit, adivasi, fishermen and other backward communities depending. The lack of facilities in government schools can be understood as a conspiracy to drive the children to the private schools and to complete the process of privatization. The welfare activities of the state which are considered as people’s rights are being abandoned one by one and the private monopolies are being encouraged to take over these sectors. This is against the values of our constitution. It has to be understood as a plot to negate social rights of the children of the poor who depend on government schools, by driving away them from all educational rights.
Various curriculums implemented, breaks our society into pieces. A democratic state hasn’t been able to provide an equal and high quality education to the people yet. It is very suspicious that the experiments on syllabus and pedagogic practices carried out in government schools are not being done in private schools. While the education of the poor is overturned by irresponsible experiments the rich get quality education. It isn’t difficult to understand the intention behind this.
We are nearing another republic day at a time when the state policies continue to negate the rights of the people. It is high time that people come together to protest against privatization and regain their constitutional values and restore the democratic rights granted by the constitution.
In this context, NAFRE (National Alliance for Right to Education) is organizing public gatherings all over south
In solidarity,
Coordination committee –JANAMUNEETAM
09895007171, 09745634782
janamunettam.blogspot.com
TC 16/1051,JRA 163,
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