Category: Statements

StudentsPledge News Dated – 02.02.2025 – Criticising the Budget for Education sector 2025-26, AIDSO General Secretary, Shibasis Praharaj has issued the following statement to the press: “The Union Budget 2025–2026 is packed with catchphrases, designed to deceive the general public, devoid of concrete measures required for improving the field of education, and intended to accelerate the commercialisation of education.The Budget allocated for the education sector is 1,28,650 crores which is only 2.54% of the total budget. It is way below the recommendation of several experts who recommend that, at least…

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StudentsPledge – Dated – 16th July 2024 – The student community of Bangladesh has stood up and are agitatingover the claim of “merit, not quotas”. The longstanding policy of ‘freedom fighters quota’, which has been generating widespread corruption, practice of facilitating benefits to kins and discrimination within the student-youth community, has sparked numerous protests in the past. Bangladesh’s Liberation War was a people’s war. It was a unified struggle of the country’s peasants, labourers, intellectuals, students, youth, and women, hailing from all strata of the society. The ruling party is…

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StudentsPledge Dated 18.06.2024 – Condemning the base attempt to distort history by including unhistorical facts in the “Ayodhya” chapter of NCERT class 12 Political Science textbook, AIDSO All India General Secretary, Sourav Ghosh says in a press statement: ” With the implementation of National Education Policy 2020, the contemptible conspiracy to distort history and communalise education has taken deep roots in overall education system of the country and the situation has only become more concerning day by day. A recent extrapolation of this scenario is seen in the needless changes…

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StudentsPledge Dated 06.06.2024 – Sourav Ghosh, General Secretary, AIDSO issued following statement to the press: “After the publication of the results of the NEET UG entrance exam on 4th June, many questions have been raised by students and parents from different corners of the country regarding the transparency of result. It is obvious that the score of a good number of students don’t tally with actual score supposed to be obtained by them if the procedure of scoring is followed as per the prospectus of NEET UG examination. It is…

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StudentsPledge Dated 26.04.2024 – Conveying solidarity to the student protest across USA and condemning the repressive actions taken by the authorities of Columbia University and the US government, Sourav Ghosh, general secretary of AIDSO, stated: “With great hope we are witnessing the student movement unfolding in USA. The protest, starting on April 17th at Columbia University with demands to sever ties to Israel and the companies that fed on war and genocide in Palestine, has already spread across the length and breadth of USA. The students from multitudes of backgrounds,…

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StudentsPledge Dated 29.03.2024 – Strongly denouncing the UGC notice, dated 27.03.2024, mandating NET qualification for PhD entrance from the academic year 2024-25 onwards, Sourav Ghosh, General Secretary of AIDSO, stated:“We are dismayed by the UGC circular that essentially mandates the universities and higher education institutions to adopt NET score as the sole criteria for PhD interview. The government, hell bent on imposing the deplorable NEP 2020, and on submitting the interests of education and research at the feet of national and international education mafia, has chosen to ignore the persistent…

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StudentsPledge Dated 03.03.2014 – Sourav Ghosh, General Secretary, AIDSO has issued following statement to the press condemning the sexual harassment in GNLU and demanding stringent punishment for the culprits involved in the incident and the authorities who tried to hide the incident. He said, “All India Committee of AIDSO strongly condemns the incidents of sexual harassment that have recently been reported at Gujarat National Law University. It is deeply disturbing that incidents of molestation, rape, discrimination, homophobia, favoritism, suppression of voices, and lack of existence of an internal complaints committee…

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StudentsPledge Date 01.03.2024 – Sourav Ghosh, General Secretary, AIDSO gave the following statement in response to the mysterious death of Siddharth J.S., a second-year Bachelor of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry student at Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Wayanad following a gruesome incident of ragging: “On Feb 18, Siddharth was found hanging in the hostel washroom. It was learnt that Siddharth was publicly ragged, paraded naked and brutally beaten up using belts and iron rods in the hostel for three days. However, the delay on the part of the…

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Students Pledge Dated 24.11.2023 – In response to the recommendation of a high level NCERT panel to include Vedas, Ramayana and Mahabharata in history syllabus, Sourav Ghosh, General Secretary of AIDSO has issued the following statement: “The recommendation of the NCERT high-level panel to include the Ramayana and the Mahabharata in the history syllabus is part of an ongoing attempt to distort the scientific study of history in our country. The Ramayana and Mahabharata are epics considered as part of the Hindu pantheon. The panel has recommended these texts be…

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