Bhatkal, February 2: The activists of Students of Islamic Organisation of India took out a protest rally in the town against the saffronisation in the education system of state syllabus.
Addressing the protestors Naseef Ikkeri said that SIO wanted to build a healthy student community on the basis of moral and humanitarian values.
He said the government unfortunately is hell bent on poisoning the young minds by drastically revising social science text books of class 5 and class 8 and it has already approved the same. The elements of communalism have been incorporated in these text books. This content will have harmful impact on the students and society's mindset by including communal disharmony. The protesters demanded the government to withdraw the new syllabus.
They pointed out that the syallabus should contain the cultural diversity and history of the state related to social justice.
Stating that they are opposed to elements of saffaronisation in the state syallabus, the protesters demanded the withdrawal of text books urged that they be redesigned as per the constitution by appointing a committee of expert educationists. The revised textbooks should come under public scrutiny through healthy discussions, they demanded.
In his proceedings, Mr. Rafiq shortly introduced the aims and objectives of SIO and highlighted some serious concern over the issue of saffronisation, further he revealed the guidelines set by National Curriculum Framework (NCF) and Department of State Educational Research and Training (DSERT) and said that the syllabus should accordingly contain social justice, history of downtrodden, history of Karnataka and cultural diversity of Kannada language. He stated that the current syllabus is lacking all of these conditions provided by NCF and DSERT.
The protesters including students, youngsters and senior citizens were chanting slogans against saffronisation.
The protestors started the rally from Shamsuddin circle and ended up at AC office.
A memorandum addressed to the Governor was presented to Assistant Commissioner by SIO regional secretary Mohammed. The Memorandum included some points about creating awareness regarding the issue.
SIO activists Azzam Siddique and Qutub Barmavar were also present.
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