NSUI holds protest against commercialisation of education at Gujarat varsity

Gohil told the audience, comprising students and youths, that the BJP government in the state had encouraged setting up of self-financed schools and colleges, even in smaller towns and remote areas and also allowed their managements to charge any amount of fee.

Not only that, the state government in many cases had also offered government schools in some of the districts to private managements.

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In the last few years, the state government opened a couple of medical colleges but they were charging fees equal to those levied by the self-financed colleges.

These policies, he said, had made quality education inaccessible to students from poor and middle class backgrounds.

The policies of the state government with regard to education had brought it to 22nd position among other states in the country. “This is a very bad situation for the state,” observed Gohil.

He said that while Prime Minister Narendra Modi was chief minister of the state before May 2014, he projected Gujarat as a model state in everything but he did not do anything to provide employment to educated youths of the state.

“There are currently 20 lakh unemployed educated youths in the state,” claimed Gohil.

Gohil also said that protest demonstrations were held in campuses of other universities as well in the state.