AIDSO balm for students

Statesman News Service

MALDA, July 2: Members of All India Democratic Students’ Organisation (AIDSO), have threatened to launch a protest rally on 4 July demanding admission of hundreds of Madhyamik students, who scored below average marks in their board examination. It was learnt that AIDSO members have demanded seats of all those students in Class XI, who have secured below 370 aggregate marks in the Madhyamik exams this year. Leaders of the students’ organisation alleged that more than 150 students hailing from poor and backward families, who have passed their Madhyamik exams cannot take admission for pursuing higher secondary education due to poor grades. AIDSO members said that these students are being deprived of their right to education, as all the seven higher secondary schools in this block have already taken in the necessary number of students on merit basis. AIDSO leader, Mr Gopon Sarkar, said: “Some higher secondary schools have admitted their own students, who have secured below 370 marks in Madhyamik exam, but they are refusing to admit those from other higher secondary schools with poor results.” Mr Sarkar also alleged that though the government prescribed admission fees for class XI at Rs 77, all the seven higher secondary schools are charging very high admission fees from Rs 320 to Rs 720, including donation and other subscriptions. #