By TCN News,
Malappuram: Though Muslim League’s PK Abdurabb is the Minister of Education, the party’s students’ wing MSF (Muslim Students Federation) and youth wing Muslim Youth League have turned against the education policy put forward by the government. The MSF has turned up strongly against the UDF government’s decision to give NOC (No Objection Certificate) to a good number of CBSE schools. A group in the League also has come up opposing the MSF stand in the matter.
A group in the Muslim League has been trying for quite some years to begin new CBSE schools by forming a special coordination committee, according to reports. And the newly-elected UDF government has given NOC to 542 schools in just a few days after coming to power. When the MSF opposed this move from the government, those who tried to begin schools reportedly complained to the party leadership that the MSF was turning against the community’s demand for CBSE schools. They have turned against the stand of the Youth League which also opposed the government decision. The group reportedly acts with the support of senior leaders in the party.
Instead of beginning CBSE schools which are unaffordable to a large part of the community, the MSF argues that, the party should follow the path of late leader CH Muhammed Koya who took initiative to begin government schools to solve the educational backwardness of the community. State leaders of the MSF have reportedly given memorandums to Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and Muslim League’s minister PK Kunjalikkutty, asking them to review the decision.
The decision to give NOC to CBSE schools, in such a way as affecting public schools, cannot be accepted, said MSF president PK Firoz while inaugurating the organisation’s march to the DDE Office in Kozhikode. ‘The MSF will strongly oppose if the UDF government also submits itself before the self-financing managements like the previous LDF government. The organisation will join party to the appeal filed by the PA Muhammed Committee against the court order increasing the fees of self-financing professional education’, he added.
The state committee meeting of the Muslim Youth League also saw opposition to the decision of giving NOCs to CBSE schools. Some members pointed out that the decision would affect the government’s image. They opined that the education policy should be formed so as to protect public education. The Youth League also decided to support the agitation carried out by the MSF against the bribery of private managements.
The new move of the MSF and the Youth League against the decisions taken by the Muslim League and the UDF government has come as a new blow to the government, which is already weak, being a minority government. The Congress’s KSU and the student organizations of the left parties have also come out in protest against the education policy of the government with regard to professional education. And, as in previous years, the entrance and fees structure of the self-financing professional institutions are still remaining unsolved, with the issue coming up in the beginning of every academic year.