Addressing a news conference in Bangalore, Thouseef Ahmed Madikeri (president SIO of India Karnataka) said that SIO has come up with certain crucial points pertaining to education sector, which political parties must consider and include in their manifestoes.
Demanding ten per cent reservation for minorities in Bangalore University, Mangalore University, Karnataka University Dharwad, Gulbarga University and Mysore University, he said that though the recent announcement of the central government to establish a university in Karnataka, which will have 50% seats reserved for minorities, is a positive step in the quest of improving the Gross Enrollment Ratio (GER) of Higher Education in the state, it will not address the dwindling higher education GER percentage among the minorities of the state – mainly because of the distance problem (as pointed out in the Knowledge Commission's report). Hence, providing ten per cent reservation in said universities will be of greater help to the minorities.
SIO is against establishment of private universities, however, if any private university is given permission for establishment, then it should be regulated under the UGC.
Talking on the lines of the report submitted by the Ministry of Human Resource Development in 2012, which points that out of the 180 educational blocks in Karnataka, 74 blocks are educationally backward, Thouseef Ahmed said that the state government should ensure implementation of the schemes which are being funded by the central government such as Model schools, construction of Girls hostel, Kasturba Gandhi BalikaVidyalaya (KGBVs) etc.
Implementation of the Lyngdoh Committee recommendations, increasing stipend for students studying in Industrial Training Institutes in the state, extension of mid-day meals scheme to ITI students, revising textbooks published by state government over the last five years and reframing them according to National Curriculum Framework (NCF) 2005 were some of the other points raised by the organisation.
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