Thousands of students from across the State took tostreets and participated in a massive demonstration organised by the All India Democratic Students Organisation (AIDSO) in front of the Secretariat here on Friday. The students’ body demanded fee waiver for the students of the flood-affected areas, rollback of fee hike and a recent decision of the Government to close down 165 schools in the State.
The other demands include reintroduction of pass-fail system up to Class-VIII, appointment of permanent teaching staff in all vacant posts in schools and colleges, uniformity in fee structure of all technical institutions, timely conduct of examination by the BPUT, scrapping of SSA, RMSA and RUSA, steps to curb sexual assault on girl students, provision of various certificates to students free of cost at all tehshils, abolition of block grant system and provision of full GIA to all institutions, etc.