Dear Friends, The Government of Orissa has promoted two Private Universities namely, the Vedanta University and Sri Sri University through two separate legislations in the State Assembly. The Vedanta University has been given permission to operate on a huge area of 6000 acres of land which is more than the geographical area covered by all the government run universities in the State taken together. Again, quite undemocratically, the government of Orissa has also issued a notice to prohibit people to undertake any construction and other work within a distance of 5 KMs surrounding the allocated 6000 acres of land. Permission to a private university to run on such a huge area has threatened the local biodiversity and displacement of local people from their ancestral homes and land they had been tilling from centuries over generations. The Vedanta University authorities have also gone a step ahead with eviction of people from their homes by employing criminals and goons who enter into the villages and torture the inhabitants. Network for Social Accountability (NSA) in principle privatization of education at all levels and in any form.
For the text of the Vedanta University Bill -2009 and the Sri Sri University Bill 2009, please visit http://www.nsa.org.in/Important%20documents/importantdocument_contents.htm Please sign an online petition to oppose the Govt of Orissa efforts to promote Vedanta University and Sri Sri University and circulate the link of the petition among your friends. Click on http://www.petitiononline.com/nsa00001/petition.html to sign the petition. To read our most recent policy briefs CLICK http://nsa.org.in/Policybrief/2009/PolicybriefArchive2009.htm (A Situation Analysis of Dalits in India) Best NSA Team Network for Social Accountability (NSA) www.nsa.org.in --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
