THE School Teachers’ Federation of India (STFI) has decided to launch a sustained movement in defence of public education. On the occasion of the 9th All India Conference of the Federation, held in Kolkata from August 8-10, a public rally was organised on the last day attended by thousands of teachers. Newly elected president, C N Bharti and general secretary Ravi Chava reported the decisions taken during the three-day conference.As part of the programme of action, lakhs of teachers will be mobilised during a mass contact campaign from September 1 to November 25, 2025.

IN a meeting held in Lucknow on August 26, 2024, various student and youth organisations, youth and student leaders, and social activists decided to launch an Employment Rights Campaign. The campaign will focus on issues such as imposing appropriate taxes on corporate houses and the super-rich, guaranteeing education, health, and employment, immediately filling vacant government posts in the country, and ensuring a dignified life for every person.

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×HAVING been chosen as the venue of the 17th all-India conference of the Students’ Federation of India, Hyderabad becomes the first city to host the highest conference of SFI two times in history. The land of the heroic Telangana uprising was the venue of the 12th all-India conference, held in 2005. The 17th conference will take place from December 13 to 16 at Osmania University.

THE little soul only wanted water. And for that crime, a 9-year-old child of Rajasthan, Indra Kumar Meghwal, was the victim of the anger of the upper castes. In a school  run by the RSS, the Saraswati Vidyamandir. Dalit children getting murdered in RSS-run schools, that is the objective reality of education and social and economic justice in India, at the eve of 75 years of independence.

Ever since the onset of this government there has been a conscious attempt to destroy public funded universities and shift towards a privatised environment in the academic space. In order to achieve so, the government has resorted to cuts in funding by cuts in budgetary allocation in higher education.