PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2012 ID-29696
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remain vacant, and government recruitment boards and commissions have been sacrificed to irregularities and corruption. .
This is the true picture of todays unemployment-ridden India. .
In India, 50% of the population lacks basic education and 90% of the youth is deprived of higher education. And .
what do our governments do to address this serious problem? .
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The farcical Right to Education Act was passed, which is nothing but a cruel joke in the name of genuine right to education. This bill allows primary education to pass into the hands of the private sector, and absolves the private sector of any responsibility of ensuring education. Kapil Sibal has several bills for higher education (the Foreign Universities Bill, the Private Universities Bill, the Educational Tribunals Bill etc). All these legislations are also an open invitation for unregulated commercialization, privatization, massive fee hikes and user charges for basic requirements like water and electricity and rewriting of curricula to suit private players. Not just this, these legislations (if passed) will bid an OFFICIAL goodbye to reservations, social justice and inclusion in higher education. .
At the same time, weapons like the Lyngdoh Committee recommendations are being used to suppress democratic activities and student unions in campuses. .
Today we have a government which gives a tax concession of 5 lakh crore rupees to corporate houses annually in the budget and facilitates the loot of natural resources. This same government does not provide basic education and employment with dignity to the students and youth of this country. How do the powers-that-be manage to implement these bizarre and anti-people policies, and preside over this regime of corporate loot? Clearly, aided by a long stream of draconian laws and measures. AFSPA, the Chhattisgarh State Public Security Act, the UAPA, Operation Green Hunt, Salwa Judum .
are all being used to target peoples movements and genuine democratic aspirations. .
In this situation students and youth must come out on the streets to strengthen the struggle for their rights to education and employment and for an end to corruption. All India Students Association(AISA) and Revolutionary Youth Association(RYA) have drawn up a Charter of Student-Youth Campaign for Employment-Education and Democracy to moblise students and youths for a country-wide struggle. .
STUDENT-YOUTH CHARTER OF RIGHTS .
RIGHT TO EMPLOYMENT CHARTER .
1. .
Employment with dignity should be given the status of a fundamental right by the Central government. Make an Employment Guarantee Scheme for urban areas. .
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2. .
Unemployed youths above the age of 25 should be given respectable unemployment allowances by every State government. .
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3. .
All workers under contractual or honorary basis should be immediately regularized as permanent workers. .
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4. .
Make Commissions and Boards formed for giving employment regular and transparent. Fill vacant posts immediately. .
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RIGHT TO EDUCATION CHARTER .
1. .
Scrap the current Right to Education law which denies the principle of right to basic education and encourages the privatization and commercialization of education. Bring a new Right to Education bill based on common school system! .
.
2. .
Immediately repeal the Private Universities Bill, Foreign Universities Bill along with all the bills proposed in Parliament by the MHRD, which clear the way for privatization of education and corporate loot. Repeal the recommendations of the Lyngdoh Commission, which are against the principles of democracy and conduct Students Union elections according to democratic procedures on all campuses. .
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3. .
Make laws at Centre and State levels to regulate and monitor the exorbitant fees structures, admission processes, evaluation processes and administration of all primary to higher educational private and semi-government institutions. Guarantee the implementation of reservation in educational institutions, ensure democracy, transparency and removal of all discrimination! .
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DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS CHARTER AGAINST CORRUPTION AND CORPORATE LOOT .
1. .
Scrap the government Lokpal draft. Pass an effective Jan Lokpal Bill which brings the army, judiciary, NGOs, PM, MPs and ministers in its ambit. Make the structure of the Lokpal socially inclusive and democratic. Repeal the privatization and new economic policies basically responsible for corruption! .
.
2. .
Stop giving tax concessions to corporate houses. Scrap the policies which facilitate the privatization and corporate loot of land, minerals, water, coal, seeds, spectrum and other natural resources. Declare all natural resources to be national wealth! .
.
3. .
Repeal repressive laws such as AFSPA, UAPA and the Sedition Act which have been made to suppress democratic movements and protest. .
.
.
Today students, youth and the working class all over the world including in the US, Greece, Chile, London and France have come out on the streets to protest against the pro-corporate economic policies and to fight for the basic rights to education, employment and health. In our own country, too, it is high time the ruling classes are confronted with the agenda of students and youth, through a powerful country-wide campaign. We appeal to you to join the campaign. And on the historic Quit India day, August 9th 2012, we call upon you to join students and youth from across the country in a March to Parliament against the rulers of today! Let us break the barricades of corruption, and launch a sustained struggle to secure our right to education and employment as fundamental rights! .
Akbar, President, AISA, JNU Piyush, Vice-President, AISA,JNU .
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PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2012 ID-29696
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remain vacant, and government recruitment boards and commissions have been sacrificed to irregularities and corruption. .
This is the true picture of todays unemployment-ridden India. .
In India, 50% of the population lacks basic education and 90% of the youth is deprived of higher education. And .
what do our governments do to address this serious problem? .
.
The farcical Right to Education Act was passed, which is nothing but a cruel joke in the name of genuine right to education. This bill allows primary education to pass into the hands of the private sector, and absolves the private sector of any responsibility of ensuring education. Kapil Sibal has several bills for higher education (the Foreign Universities Bill, the Private Universities Bill, the Educational Tribunals Bill etc). All these legislations are also an open invitation for unregulated commercialization, privatization, massive fee hikes and user charges for basic requirements like water and electricity and rewriting of curricula to suit private players. Not just this, these legislations (if passed) will bid an OFFICIAL goodbye to reservations, social justice and inclusion in higher education. .
At the same time, weapons like the Lyngdoh Committee recommendations are being used to suppress democratic activities and student unions in campuses. .
Today we have a government which gives a tax concession of 5 lakh crore rupees to corporate houses annually in the budget and facilitates the loot of natural resources. This same government does not provide basic education and employment with dignity to the students and youth of this country. How do the powers-that-be manage to implement these bizarre and anti-people policies, and preside over this regime of corporate loot? Clearly, aided by a long stream of draconian laws and measures. AFSPA, the Chhattisgarh State Public Security Act, the UAPA, Operation Green Hunt, Salwa Judum .
are all being used to target peoples movements and genuine democratic aspirations. .
In this situation students and youth must come out on the streets to strengthen the struggle for their rights to education and employment and for an end to corruption. All India Students Association(AISA) and Revolutionary Youth Association(RYA) have drawn up a Charter of Student-Youth Campaign for Employment-Education and Democracy to moblise students and youths for a country-wide struggle. .
STUDENT-YOUTH CHARTER OF RIGHTS .
RIGHT TO EMPLOYMENT CHARTER .
1. .
Employment with dignity should be given the status of a fundamental right by the Central government. Make an Employment Guarantee Scheme for urban areas. .
.
2. .
Unemployed youths above the age of 25 should be given respectable unemployment allowances by every State government. .
.
3. .
All workers under contractual or honorary basis should be immediately regularized as permanent workers. .
.
4. .
Make Commissions and Boards formed for giving employment regular and transparent. Fill vacant posts immediately. .
.
.
.
RIGHT TO EDUCATION CHARTER .
1. .
Scrap the current Right to Education law which denies the principle of right to basic education and encourages the privatization and commercialization of education. Bring a new Right to Education bill based on common school system! .
.
2. .
Immediately repeal the Private Universities Bill, Foreign Universities Bill along with all the bills proposed in Parliament by the MHRD, which clear the way for privatization of education and corporate loot. Repeal the recommendations of the Lyngdoh Commission, which are against the principles of democracy and conduct Students Union elections according to democratic procedures on all campuses. .
.
3. .
Make laws at Centre and State levels to regulate and monitor the exorbitant fees structures, admission processes, evaluation processes and administration of all primary to higher educational private and semi-government institutions. Guarantee the implementation of reservation in educational institutions, ensure democracy, transparency and removal of all discrimination! .
.
.
.
DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS CHARTER AGAINST CORRUPTION AND CORPORATE LOOT .
1. .
Scrap the government Lokpal draft. Pass an effective Jan Lokpal Bill which brings the army, judiciary, NGOs, PM, MPs and ministers in its ambit. Make the structure of the Lokpal socially inclusive and democratic. Repeal the privatization and new economic policies basically responsible for corruption! .
.
2. .
Stop giving tax concessions to corporate houses. Scrap the policies which facilitate the privatization and corporate loot of land, minerals, water, coal, seeds, spectrum and other natural resources. Declare all natural resources to be national wealth! .
.
3. .
Repeal repressive laws such as AFSPA, UAPA and the Sedition Act which have been made to suppress democratic movements and protest. .
.
.
Today students, youth and the working class all over the world including in the US, Greece, Chile, London and France have come out on the streets to protest against the pro-corporate economic policies and to fight for the basic rights to education, employment and health. In our own country, too, it is high time the ruling classes are confronted with the agenda of students and youth, through a powerful country-wide campaign. We appeal to you to join the campaign. And on the historic Quit India day, August 9th 2012, we call upon you to join students and youth from across the country in a March to Parliament against the rulers of today! Let us break the barricades of corruption, and launch a sustained struggle to secure our right to education and employment as fundamental rights! .
Akbar, President, AISA, JNU Piyush, Vice-President, AISA,JNU .
.
.
.