The Central Executive Committee of the Students Federation of India held in Government Guest House Cochin on 11th and 12th of April, 2010 and took the following decisions:
The Foreign Educational Institutions (Regulation of Entry and Operations) Bill has been approved by the Union Cabinet and is likely to be placed in the Parliament. This Bill is an anti- people legislation, which will have far reaching implications on the provision of education in our country. It will add to the increasing inequity both social and economic in our higher education sector. Also this Bill has nothing in it, which will change things drastically and prevent substandard foreign educational provider from operating in the country. Knowledge can only expand if it is free from all frontiers and geographical boundaries. It is important that our universities interact with the best of the universities in the world and exchange knowledge and ideas. But allowing foreign educational providers to come and set up shops in India is not a substitute for that mutual process. The solution to India’s problems in higher education do not lie in calling for FDI, rather the Central Government should increase spending and try and rejuvenate our higher education system.
Resist the new onslaughts on education; Dig Deep in the Campuses: The Congress led UPAII government after assuming office has intensified its attacks on the education sector. Commercialization and centralization have been the basic tendencies of all policies persuaded by the government. Keeping in mind the over all policy changes in the education sector the CEC of SFI decided to respond in a befitting manner. Armed with our arguments SFI will take the campaign up to the unit level where a fine linkage with the local struggles and these policy orientations will be corded. The organization call for the entire process will be “Resist the new onslaughts on education: dig deep in the campuses”. A broader unity with the other left student organizations and also other organizations on a common platform will be waged. Unity with the other sections of the academic community will also be chalked out.
Four Decades of SFI: The CEC decided to observe the forty years of SFI. This year also marks the beginning of the diamond jubilee of the organized student movement in our country.The occasion will be celebrated with due weigtage. The inaugural programme will be on 12th of August, which also happens to be the foundation day of the organized student movement in our country in Dumdum (North 24 Parganas, West Bengal) where the first open session before the formation of SFI took place in 1970. The concluding programme will be in Thiruvanathapuram on 30th of December, the foundation day of the organization. In between programmes commemorating Four Decades of Study, Struggle and Sacrifice will be organized in all states. Popular lectures, seminars, mobilizations, photo exhibition and other innovative colourful programme will be taken up.
150th Birth Anniversary of Tagore: This year is the 150th Birth Anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore. Seminars, symposiums, popular lectures, cultural programmes and competitions marking the event will be organized particularly at the college and university levels on topics as Tagore on Education, Tagore on Emancipation of woman, Tagore on Fascism, Tagore on National Unity etc.
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