19 June , 2015
The
closure of three thousand schools and ashrams by the CG government is
a symbol of the economic and academic bankruptcy and its anti people
character
The
Chathisgarh government started the present academic year of 2015-16
with the closure of three thousand schools and ashrams (residential
schools). It closed all these ashrams in the name of lack of
admission. The teachers in these schools were transferred to the near
by schools. Most of these are primary and middle schools and happen
to be in the adivasi area, especially in Bastar division. This not
only reveals the anti people and anti adivasi character and history
of the BJP government but also exposes its economic and academic
bankruptcy.
Of
late, due to the shameful conditions of the imperialist financial
institutions like the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank,
the government adopted anti people policy and brought down people's
welfare schemes. Education is being more and more privatized. This is
a step towards the conspiracy to deprive the poor adivasis, dalits
and backward sections of education and development.
In
the name of bringing down the expenditure on establishment, the
appointment of teachers and the third and fourth class government
employees were withheld long back. In the name of appointment of
siksha karmi, contract teachers, daily wage, and casual employees and
on contract, temporary appointments are being made with low wages.
Now thousands of ashrams in the state were closed. The adivasi area
that has been facing the problems of lack of schools, teachers, and
illiteracy has now been much deprived of children's education. The
appointment in the vacancies of tens of thousands of teachers was
permanently brought to a stop. The unemployed in the backward adivasi
areas have been deprived of employment. Due to the financial
bankruptcy of the CG government it implemented cuts in providing
infrastructure like library, laboratory, uniforms, note books, and
text books, mid day meals, recruitment of new teachers, their wages
and other facilities.
The
actual meaning of the constant fake propaganda in the TV and Radio
'bachho, padho-likho, aage bado' (children, read-write, go forward)
and that Maoists are against tribals' education has been nakedly
revealed to the people. For children, especially girls who cannot
afford to go to school even in their own villages; it would be almost
difficult to go to schools far away. The inevitable situation in
which the girls and boys of the family are forced to do domestic
work, labor, and farming is itself a curse. This is depriving them of
education. Instead of bettering the situation of such kind of
families and educating the children, the government is closing the
ashrams in the name of lack of admission. This is nothing but worse
conspiratorial and negligent attitude of the government towards the
education of the oppressed sections. This would affect women's
literacy and the literacy of adivasi women would fall under the dark.
Narendra Modi's reiterating slogan, 'beti bachao, beti padhao'
(meaning 'protect girls, educate girls') is clearly revealed to the
people. These kinds of slogans are given only to mislead and mystify
the people. On one hand thousands of ashrams are being closed and on
the other the Minister of education of Chathisgarh, Kedar Kashyap
announces that in the present academic year six and a half lakhs of
children would join the ashrams. This is not only ridiculous but also
misgiving. Backward classes, dalits and adivsis, especially the women
in these sections are deprived of education which proves the anti
adivasi, anti education and anti development.
The
Raman singh government that is depriving the backward sections,
Dalits, adivasis of education is in fact anti development. The real
meaning of Raman singh's development is that of the domestic and
foreign corporate giants and is giving away the jal jungle and zameen
of the people to them. The meaning of development is the absolute
deprivation of the poor, backward, dalits and adivasis of basic
amenities like food, shelter, clothing, education, health, drinking
water etc. Raman Singh is afraid that if the adivasis are educated,
they would become elite and would raise their voice much more
strongly against their exploitation and repression and that they
would intensify armed struggle for their genuine development and self
rule.
Many
of the schools in Bastar Division even now happen to be the shelters
of the police and para military forces. In spite of the direction of
the Supreme Court of the country this situation exists as and how the
forces wish. On the other side the schools that are being run by the
Revolutionary Janathana Sarkar(RPC) that has been formed under the
leadership of our Party are being targeted by the armed forces of the
government. The dozens of schools of the janathana sarkar (people's
government) that are being run in Narayanapur, Kanker, Bastar,
Bijapur, Dantewada and Sukma districts were attacked and the
notebooks, textbooks, clothes and other such essential articles have
been burnt. This clearly reveals the fakeness of the Raman singh
government regarding the education of the adivasis.
Our
party calls upon all the students, teachers, parents and guardians,
progressive and democratic intellectuals, human rights organisations,
adivasi and non adivasi social organisations to strongly protest the
anti education policy of the Chathisgarh government and to take up
programs to demand the withdrawal of the decision of closing the
ashrams. We call upon the people and teachers of the affected
villages to come forward and demand the retaining of the ashrams in
their original places.
(Gudsa
Usendi)
Spokesperson,
Dandakaranya
Special Zonal Committee,
CPI
(Maoist)
COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (MAOIST)
DANDAKARANYA SPECIAL ZONAL COMMITTEE
Press Release.
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