STUDENTS’ FEDERATION OF INDIA

CHARTER OF DEMANDS

1. Ensure Education for all, jobs for all.

2. Allocate 10 per cent of the Central budget, 6 per cent of the GDP and 30 per cent of state budget for education.

3. Recognise the right to education and the right to employment as fundamental rights in the Constitution of the country.

4. Ensure a democratic, scientific and progressive education system.

5. Return education to the state list.

6. Protect and promote the democratization of education. Ensure democratic rights of the entire academic community and the democratic rights of the student community in particular.

7. Provide free education up to secondary stage and abolish tuition fees up to higher secondary stage.

8.  Stop communalisation of education

9.  Stop commercialization of education.

10. Provide adequate facilities of education and scope for sports, cultural and literary activities accessible to all.

11. Reform and develop the entire education system and particularly pedagogy and the evaluation system on scientific and progressive lines.

12.  Provide and protect the rights and opportunities of the scheduled castes, tribes, OBCs and all marginalized sections in the area of education and employment.

13.  Ensure that all educational institutes are free from sexual harassment and gender discrimination. Form committees against sexual harassment as directed by the Supreme Court in all educational institutes.

14. Ensure social control over all private educational institutions in the country for the regulation of fess, admission process and the content of education.

15. Curb all forms of corruption in the sphere of education.

16. Education up to primary level should be provided in the mother tongue and at subsequent levels in one’s, mother tongue, regional, state or national language.