ABVP activists surrounded the house of state municipal minister Sri Botsa Satyanarayana in Vijayanagar to protest the privatization of Maharaja aided College.
Details are ….
Maharaja Aided College in Vijayanagar has a long history. It was established in 1879 as the Maharaja’s High School. The college has 26 faculty members in the aided department and 100 faculty members in the unaided. The non-teaching staff consisted of 10 aided and 25 unaided staff. About four thousand students are studying in that institution. UGC-funded infrastructure for the educational institution and the management of the college are in progress.
Efforts for Privatization ….
However, efforts are being made to privatize the college. To this extent the Mansas ownership has also sent a request to the government. MM Nayak, special commissioner of the state higher education council, also wrote a letter to RJD directing the Mansas committee to consider the request. The teaching and non-teaching staff working in the educational institution are concerned that if the educational institution is privatized they will be left without protection.
ABVP movement ….
The ABVP strongly condemns attempts to privatize such an educational institution With a very long history on giving lives for thousands of students for decades through education. ABVP leaders demanded that the privatization of the Maharaja Aided College would darken the future of the staff as well as the students and that the Mansas Committee and the government should immediately withdraw those efforts. As part of the protest, ABVP activists stormed the house of state municipal minister Shri Botsa Satyanarayana.
