National students fete from Aug. 24

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, JUNE 23. A three-day National Students Festival will be held here from August 24 to 26 to mark the 65-year celebrations of the All India Student Federation (AISF).

The former Prime Minister, Mr.I.K. Gujral, is likely to inaugurate the festival and film personalities, including Mrs. Shabana Azmi, are expected to be associated with the cultural fete on the second day.

Seminars to be organised as part of the festival will deal with subjects such as ``Save Education from Privatisation and Saffronisation.'' About 650 delegates from all AISF State units are to participate in the deliberations.

About 30,000 students will participate in the rally to be taken out on the inaugural day, Mr. G. Eswariah, general secretary of the reception committee of the festival, told reporters on Saturday. The reception committee was formed today to oversee the arrangements for the national festival.

Mr. Eswaraiah said the Minister of Higher Education, Mr. Karanam Ramachander Rao, the Minister for School Education, Mr.K. Srihari, and the Minister for Technical Education, Mr. Alapati Rajendra Prasad, had agreed to be the patrons of the reception committee. Mr. N.R. Dasari, MP, Mr.K.V. Raghuram Reddy, former West Bengal Governor, and Mr. P. Venkatram Reddy, Vice- Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, are the other three patrons while Mr. S. Sudhakar Reddy, State CPI secretary, is its chairman.

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