Date:13/01/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/01/13/stories/2006011305280900.htm

Andhra Pradesh

`More investment on classrooms, need of the hour'

Staff Reporter

ANANTAPUR: National president of All India Students' Federation (AISF) P. Muralidhar has stressed the need for strengthening the student movement in the country for a proactive role for them in politics and in decision (law) making for the education sector.

Talking to newspersons here on Thursday he said another historical movement by the students was the need of the hour, like their role in the freedom movement, as they required a say in the policy making for the education sector.

Government policies were neglecting the education sector for long and it was not helping the development of students.

Country's future would develop in class rooms and investment should be increased on class rooms for a better future of the country.

Privatisation in the sector was denying higher education to the poor, Mr. Muralidhar said.

The fact that only three per cent of the country's poor were able to seek higher education indicated its reach, he said.