Saturday, January 12, 2008

Indian Schools Students formed body to air Grievances

DELHI SCHOOLS STUDENTS FORUM
478-479, LAWYERS CHAMBERS, WESTERN WING, TIS HAZARI COURTS,
DELHI-110054
Phone- 011-23910014, 09811101923

PRESS RELEASE

More than 100 students of Delhi Government and MCD run schools in a meeting held today (12.01.2008) in Jhangirpuri, Delhi have resolved to constitute a body, namely, “Delhi Schools Students Forum” to protect child rights and particularly the right to education. A 35 member adhoc committee has been formed with Sanjeeda, Sarita, Jatin, Nafeesa, Ankit Saxena, Neha, Arun Kumar, Shiva, Jyoti, Manisha, Arshi, Priti, Rahul Kumar, Abda, Ankit, Mryalida, Ratan Lal, Sanjeed, Radhika, Geeta, Nasreen, Poonam, Rabiya, Yashmeen, Asma, Seema, Sandeep, Sonali, Krishma, Laxmi, Monika, Komal, Paramjeet Kaur, Purnima, and Mamta to take steps to enrol more and more members and also to take necessary decisions on behalf of the Forum. More members to this committee shall be added in due course of time. Shri Ashok Agarwal, Advocate and Advisor, Social Jurist and Shri Akbar Ali, Coordinator, Chetnalaya(NGO) have ageed to act as facilitators. A child going to any school in Delhi shall be eligible to become a member of this Forum without payment of any fee. The slogan of the Forum shall be ‘MERI AWAJ SUNO’

It has also been resolved that in order to draw attention of the authorities, the students of the government and the mcd run schools may abstain themselves from the classes on February 05, 2008 to protest against the poor quality of education in these schools.

Ashok Agarwal, Advocate
Advisor, Social Jurist
M-09811101923
12.01.2008

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