The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) has called for a state-wide bandh of all educational institutions in Telangana's Karimnagar today.
According to Hans India, ABVP has demanded that the government should strictly implement the Right to Education Act and should also form district fee regulatory committees. ABVP city secretary Raparthi Srinivas said at a press meet that they seek action to be taken against private and corporate educational institutions, which are collecting high fees from parents and to implement the law to control fees. Srinivas had also urged all the parents and representatives of people's organisations to participate in the State-wide bandh call given by ABVP to make it successful.
ABVP's other demands include, implementation of GO No: 91 strictly, which prevents private and corporate schools from adding suffix to their school names to attract parents so that they will admit their children into their schools; stop the school management from selling books, uniforms and other stationary on the school premises; and allotment of 25 per cent seats to the students belonging to weaker sections.
