Stage demo by Students

Members of the All India Students’ Federation staging a demonstration in Tuticorin on Sunday.Members of the All India Students’ Federation staged a demonstration here on Sunday.They urged the authorities concerned to improve educational facilities in the district.The agitators said that steps should be taken to open more government colleges, besides augmenting facilities at government hostels for students.

According to the cadres, uniform syllabi should be evolved at school level after scrapping different types of syllabi like Anglo Indian, Matriculation and CBSE.The banks should expedite disbursal of educational loans to needy students, instead of making them wait for long periods.Bus passes should be distributed to all college and school students at the earliest.They urged the district administration to run more number of buses to rural areas to facilitate students to reach colleges and schools situated in the towns easily.Stalin Mahendra Singh, State joint secretary, and J. Murugan, district president of the AISF, spoke.