SFI News

Details: News; 20 November 2018

SFI organised a solidarity programme with kisan march at the Gateway of India, Mumbai. As tourists reach at the Gateway of India site, they are greeted by the banner ," #StudentsForFarmers ." SFI also called upon the student community to take part in the kisan march which will be held on the 29th and 30th in New Delhi.

According to the report of Times of India(2017), Maharashtra touched to record a high number (2,917) of farmer suicides in 2017. Nearly half of Maharashtra declared drought hit zone. But ,it is proved that drought is not a natural crisis but man-made crisis. Basically, farmers are following the directions of the research institutes and government departments, even he has left his traditional ways of farming under these directions. It is also a part of politics to say it is an un-natural condition created by humans. We should also fix the responsibility of those who were responsible for policy matters, which had all machinery under its control, who were responsible for managing these conditions. So,this is not a suicide of farmers but murder by the system.

Numerous students who are coming from the drought affected agricultural families are forced to drop their studies. In this context, SFI waged different protests and campaign demanding free hostel, free bus passes, total removal of academic fee for the drought affected students.

"Farmers from across the country are going to assemble on the 29th and 30th in New Delhi to put forward their demand in the form of the 'Kisan Mukti March', for a 21-day Special Parliamentary Session. We also hope that the problems of students coming from drought affected or agrarian crisis hit family should be discussed in parliament. We will also launch more campaigns highlighting this issue in coming days. We do not see the issues of farmers alien to the issues the students face these days. We both are victims of the agressive neo-liberal policies being pursued by the NDA regime. The time demands a larger unity and struggles." Said Mayukh Biswas, General secretary of SFI.

Details: News; 16 November 2018

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SFI staged protest in Karmbakudi boys government higher secondary school in Puthukottai district of Tamil Nadu with different demands concerning the students. Nearly 500 students participated in the protest which mainly demanded the timely issue of students bus pass. Students in the city are facing difficulties in commuting to school since the authorities has not yet issued their bus pass even after months got over from the commencement of classes. The protest also raised the lack of basic amenities like drinking water in government schools across Tamil Nadu. Government schools are deprived of even the minimum facilities for the students to continue their education. SFI has warned the authorities that more struggles will follow if the issues are not addresed without any further delay.

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Details: News; 18 March 2018

Breaking the decades long dominance of Hindutva communal forces SFI alliance marks a thumping victory in one of the major university campuses of Maharashtra. Sachin Ambadas Hmenke from SFI is elected as the students union General secretary of Auragnabad's Maratha Ambedkar University Campus. SFI contested elections in alliance with National Students Congress (NSC).

The University campus which was a traditional stronghold of Shivsena's student wing Bhartiya Vidyarthi Sena didnt have elections in the last two years. With the changing situation, Sachin Ambadas Hemke became General Secretary with 28 votes out of the 52 department elected representatives .According to SFI state vice president Sunil Rathod, this election mandate is a clear implication of the increasing influence of SFI among the campus students.

The SFI-NSC alliance will continue even to the University general election which will include all the colleges under the university that to be held at March 28th. The elected representatives from each campuses will elect the University office bearers and SFI and NSC will contest for the posts of University Union Secretary and President respectively. SFI has been in constant struggles in the state over the issues of students of all spectrum. Recently a state wide jadha was also held along with DYFI. This victory will only lead more intensified struggles for quality, social justice and strenghthening of public institutions in education sector.

Details: News; 28 September 2017

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The SFI-TSU combine registered a splendid victory defeating the RSS-affiliated ABVP in all the 22 general degree colleges in Tripura, where students council elections were held on September 12. Out of a total 393 office-bearers and 385 class representative seats, the SFI-TSU won 385 and 366 seats respectively. In all, the SFI-TSU (Students Federation of India and Tribal Students Union) combine won 751 (96.53 per cent) seats. The remaining eight office-bearer and 19 class representative seats were won by the ABVP.

Jubilant SFI-TSU activists took out victory processions.

Out of total 778 seats, the SFI-TSU combine won 530 seats uncontested as the ABVP could not put up candidate. These include all the seats in nine colleges where SFI-TSU candidates were declared elected unopposed.

With an eye on the assembly election due for early next year, the BJP projected this college election as a semi-final. Laying utmost importance on this election, they lavishly used money to allure the students to contest for the ABVP. In many colleges, BJP state leaders directly involved themselves in campaign for the ABVP. After they failed to gather student support, they mobilised non-student miscreants from outside to vitiate the peaceful situation inside most of the colleges so that election process could be disrupted. But for the peace-loving students, college administration and alertness of the police, they failed to stall the election.

The ABVP which we see at present is nothing but NSUI elements that were active in the colleges earlier. As most of the Congress followers had defected to the BJP, their student wing entirely crossed over to the ABVP. While they highlighted the BJP's education policy and so-called "progress" in Modi regime in their campaign, SFI-TSU activists campaigned on the regressive education policy of the Centre that has been coated with Hindutva agenda and performance of the Left Front government of the state for providing ample opportunities for education to wide section of the people despite the Centre's non-cooperation.

"We Both Are Victims of Same Policies"; SFI Organises Meetings in Support of Kisan March

SFI Tamilnadu Protests Over the Problems of Schools Students in Puthukottai

SFI ALLIANCE WINS AURANGABAD AMBEDKAR UNIVERSITY ELECTION IN MAHARASHTRA

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