Tuesday, June 21, 2011: LDF flayed the UDF government’s decision to grant NOCs for 540 CBSE and ICSE schools, claiming it would “adversely” affect the functioning of public schools in the state.
Such a move would lead to more students dropping out from government schools and more than 5,000 teachers would end up losing their jobs, claimed Front convenor Vaikom Viswam after an LDF meeting here. Criticising the policy followed by the government in the Self Financing Professional Institutions sector, Viswam alleged the Oommen Chandy-headed government was trying to “help them to fill up MBBS courses in management quota.”
The higher education sector was being commercialised, he charged. LDF also alleged that the government was trying to scuttle the pending cases against UDF leaders by affecting transfers and postings. Viswam alleged that UDF was attempting to seek “political vendetta” and indulge in corruption, but said LDF would resist such attempts of the government.
LDF also charged UDF with trying to delay President’s assent for the bill passed by the Kerala Assembly to set up a special tribunal to realise compensation from Coca Cola for alleged losses caused by its plant at Plachimada in Palakkad district. There was a move to sabotage the legislation passed unanimously by the previous assembly in February last when LDF was in power, Viswam claimed.
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