AISF demands job guaranty scheme

Hanamkonda: All India Students Federation (AISF) national council demanded that the Centre should come up with Bhagat Singh National Employment Guaranty Act (BANEGA) to ensure employment to all youth in the country.

A resolution was passed at the two-day national council meeting held at Kakatiya University, informed the federation national president Syed Valiullah Qadri. He said the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, during last elections promised to provide one crore jobs to the youth, but failed to deliver it.

On the other hand, unemployment rate was increasing since the BJP-led NDA government came to power. Hence the Ccentre must enact the employment guarantee act to create jobs and offer unemployment allowance to jobless, he demanded.

Giving details of resolutions passed at the meeting here on Sunday, he said the AISF would launch ‘Save Education’ campaign on February 20 across the nation marking the death anniversary of CPI leader Govind Pansare.

It was meant to protest against the saffronisation of education and closing down of schools in public sector. During the past three years, nearly one lakh government schools were closed down across the nation because of the policies of the State and Central governments, Qadri said. Similarly, ‘Anti-Hindu Religious Fundamentalism Day’ would be observed across the nation, commemorating Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination in the hands of Nathuram Godse on January 30. A national students’ convention would be held at Osmania University on March 10 and 11 with a call to protect government educational institutions and demanding for scientific and secular education to all, the federation leader said.

An activist of AISF from JNU New Delhi, Rahila Parveen, complained that ever since the BJP government came to power at the Centre, attacks on dalits and women were on the raise. The government that launched ‘Beti Padao-Beti Bachao’ campaign was attacking girl students for fighting for their rights.

Punjab AISF state secretary Vikki Mehasari accused the BJP of attacking the constitutional rights of people in the name of ‘Go-Raksha’. The students at universities were either harassed or eliminated for questioning the government, he alleged.  The council meeting, attended by AISF council members from 29 states, federation national general secretary Vishwajith Kumar, former minister from Kerala Binoy Vishwam and its former national president T Srinivas Rao, have called upon the student community to be alert and fight for their rights. The federation council members Nitin, Sushil Kumar, Sivarama Krishna, Ashok Stalin, Ranganna, Subba Rao and others were present.