2019EducationManifesto

MEMORANDUM - OUR DEMANDS IN YOUR ELECTION MANIFESTO - A NATIONAL CAMPAIGN

Dear Madam/Sir,

We, the members of PEOPLE’S ALLIANCE FOR FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT TO EDUCATION –PAFRE, as a part of our national campaign to make care, including health, nutrition , early opportunities for young children to stimulate sensory development and sustainable education of an equitable quality for all children until the age of 18 years as a prime political agenda in the forthcoming parliamentary elections 2019. This national campaign is led by the Alliance for Early Child Development, Right to Education Forum and Campaign Against Child Labour. We demand the following as non-negotiable commitments to be included in your party manifesto. We also demand a political commitment to fulfil the same post-elections.

OUR DEMANDS IN YOUR MANIFESTO

1. Our party is committed to spend 6% of GDP for education as recommended by the Education Commission, and also compensate the inadequate investment in Education in the past .
2. Our party is committed to take all measures to provide care including health, nutrition, early opportunities for young children for sensory development and equitable quality education in their respective mother tongue / regional language to all children, until 18 years in a neighbourhood school.
3. Our party is committed to make necessary amendments to the RTE Act to include Early Child Development, pre-school and higher secondary education as legal entitlements, in line with international legal instruments and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
4. Our party is committed to strengthen public education and take measures to stop mass closure/merger of state funded government schools
5. Our party is committed to curb privatization and commercialization of education and promises to enact a comprehensive regulatory framework to enforce accountability of private schools. It includes regulation of fees, minimum norms and standards for quality and institutional structure for parents’ participation.

We urge you to include the above in your manifesto as people’s agenda .

On behalf of People’s Alliance for Fundamental Right to Education

Niranjanaradhya.V.P	People’s Alliance for Fundamental Right to Education - PAFRE
Basavaraj Gurikar	All India Primary Teachers Federation -AIPTF
Narayanaswamy.V.M	Karnataka State Primary School Teachers Association - KSPSTA
Siddalingappa Victor Tauro Jayamma	School Development and Monitoring Committee Coordination Forum - SDMCCF Campaign Against Child Labour - CACL Anganawadi Workers and Helpers Federation AW&hF - (AITUC)
Nihal Kidyur Chegareddy	Student Islamic Organisation- SIO Bharath Gyan Vigyan Samithi BGVS
Padmini .R Kiran Kamal Prasad Mallige Mariswamy Thirumala Rao Gurumurthy Kasinathan	Early Childhood Development Alliance - ECDA Jeeta Vimukti Karnataka JEEVIKA Samana Shikshanakkagi Janandolana - SSJ Samaja Parivarthana Janandolana - SPJ Karnataka State Retired Education Officers Association KSREOA IT for Change - ITfC
Nandini	Action Aid India - AAI
Suresh Aralakuppe	Karnataka Vicharavadigala Sangha - KVS-KRVP

Organizations and institutions supporting the Education Manifesto, which are requesting all political parties to include these clauses in their 2019 election manifesto.

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