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AISF stages protest against common fee

By Our Staff Reporter

CUDDAPAH July 14. Activists of the All India Students' Federation burnt the effigy of the Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, before Gandhi statue here on Monday flaying the scrapping of free seats and introduction of common fee for engineering and medicine seats.

The AISF district president, N. Narasimhulu, and the secretary, G. Chandra, said that the meritorious, SC, ST, BC and OBC students would have to bear common fee of Rs. 22,000 unlike in the past. Criticising the recent Supreme Court judgment, they wanted a review of it in Parliament. Vesting powers with private managements to decide the fee structure keeping in view the economic and social circumstances would jeopardise students' interests and deprive them of educational avenues, they alleged.

They demanded continuation of free seats and the previous fee structure and withdrawal of common fee. They demanded conduct of counselling as in the past and threatened to obstruct counselling for engineering and medicine seats slated at Tirupati on July 18.

Medicare to poor

Functionaries of the A.P. Agricultural Labourers' Union and the AISF staged a dharna in front of the Collectorate on Monday demanding steps to ensure proper medicare to the poor at the Government hospital here.

The union president, G. Obulesu, the general secretary, P. Krishnamurthy, the area secretary, N. Sivaram, the AITUC secretary, S.A. Sattar and AISF leaders -- Y. Prabhudas, P. Obulesu and K. Bharat Kumar -- alleged that rampant corruption, negligence and arrogance of doctors and staff worsened the situation in the hospital.

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