தினமணி

அனைத்து மாணவர் கூட்டமைப்பு அறிவிப்பு
சென்னையில் அக்டோபர் 20-ஆம் தேதி நடைபெற்ற அனைத்து மாணவர் கூட்டமைப்பு கூட்டத்தில் எடுக்கப்பட்ட முடிவின்படி வரும் முதல் கட்டமாக அக்டோபர் 24-ஆம் தேதி வெள்ளிக்கிழமை தமிழகத்தின் அனைத்து கல்லூரிகள், பல்கலைக் கழகங்களில் மாணவர்கள் வகுப்புப் புறக்கணிப்பில் ஈடுபடவுள்ளனர்.
அதைத் தொடர்ந்து அந்தந்த கல்லூரிகளின் முன்பு கருப்புக் கொடி ஏற்றி, ஈழத் தமிழர்களின் இன்னல்களை விளக்கி ஆர்ப்பாட்டமும் நடைபெறவுள்ளது. இதில் தமிழகத்தைச் சேர்ந்த அனைத்துக் கல்லூரி மாணவர்களும் இதில் பங்கேற்க வேண்டுமென கேட்டுக்கொள்ளப்படுகின்றனர்.
சென்னை மற்றும் அதன் சுற்றுப்புறத்தைச் சேர்ந்த மாணவர்கள் காலையில் வகுப்புப் புறக்கணிப்பிலும், ஆர்ப்பாட்டத்திலும் ஈடுபட்ட பிறகு, மாலை சென்னையில் தமிழக அரசு சார்பில் நடைபெறவுள்ள மனித சங்கிலியில் பங்கெடுத்து நமது உணர்வை வெளிப்படுத்த வேண்டுமெனவும் கேட்டுக்கொள்ளப்படுகிறார்கள்.
மாணவர்களின் அடுத்த கட்ட போராட்டம் குறித்து அக்டோபர் 25-ஆம் நாள் கூடும் கூட்டு நடவடிக்கைக் குழு விவாதித்து முடிவு செய்யும்.
- அனைத்து மாணவர் கூட்டமைப்பில்
ஒருங்கிணைந்துள்ள மாணவர் அமைப்புகள்
(அகர வரிசைப்படி)
அனைத்திந்திய மாணவர் பெரு மன்றம் (AISF)
இளைஞர் இயக்கம்
திராவிடர் மாணவர் கழகம் (தி.க)
திராவிட முன்னேற்றக் கழக மாணவரணி
தமிழக மாணவர் சங்கம் (பா.ம.க)
மறுமலர்ச்சி திராவிட முன்னேற்றக் கழக மாணவரணி
முற்போக்கு மாணவர் கழகம் (வி.சி)
மற்றும் அனைத்துக் கலை, அறிவியல்,
மருத்துவ மற்றும் பொறியியல் கல்லூரிகள்,
பல்கலைக் கழகங்களின் மாணவர்கள்
RESOLUTIONS PASSED AT THE INAUGURAL MEETING OF THE
CONFEDERATION OF ALL STUDENTS HELD ON 20 OCTOBER 2008, CHENNAI
1. Formation of the Confederation of All Students
Eelam Tamils are being massacred in a genocidal pogrom undertaken by the Sinhalese majoritarian forces through state terrorism. It has become imperative for the students of Tamil Nadu to rally together for their brethren with whom they share an emotional and historical umblical cord. The fifty-year war to exterminate the Tamil people has today reached a critical flashpoint. Because of Tamil sentiments and humaneness, all organizations have started coming together to fight for their brothers and sisters who are being abducted, killed and raped. One can palpably feel the students’ awakening and uprising in this state. If such an uprising has to achieve complete victory, it is the duty of all students and student movements in Tamil Nadu to join hands and enter the public arena in order to capture the International Community’s attention. Having realized this need, all student organizations have decided to jointly work under the name of the “Confederation of All Students.”
As the first stage, the following student organizations have agreed to work together for this issue:
1. All India Student Federation (AISF)
2. Dravidar Maanavar Kazhagam (Dravidar Kazhagam)
3. Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) Students Wing
4. Ilaignar Iyakkam
5. MDMK Student’s Wing
6. Murpokku Maanavar Kazhagam (Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi)
7. Tamizhaga Maanavar Sangam (Paattali Makkal Katchi)
and student organizations from various arts, law, engineering and medical colleges.
Continuing his efforts to build a consensus on the implementation of OBC reservation in elite educational institutions, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh [ Images ] on Friday held consultations with Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss, whose party Pattali Makkal Katchi wants its immediate implementation.
Advocating a 'one-go' rollout of reservation, Ramadoss told Dr Singh that students belonging to OBC category have waited enough to get access to higher education.
They could be accommodated in the existing facilities and as and when infrastructure improves, students from unreserved categories could be given seats.
"The PMK even asked for bringing an ordinance to implement the process," Ramadoss said after the meeting in which United Progressive Alliance [ Images ] chairperson Sonia Gandhi [ Images ] and Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee [ Images ] were present.
The minister said his party was also against exclusion of creamy layer from the proposed reservation.
The prime minister received a boost on Thursday when he had received support from Rashtriya Janata Dal supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav [ Images ] when he said his party would support the government in "whatever decision it takes on the issue".
"We are committed to reservation. Let us first finalise all this," Lalu had said when asked whether his party would agree to a staggered implementation as suggested by the Oversight Committee headed by Veerappa Moily [ Images ].
RJD, along with the Left, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam [ Images ] and PMK, wanted the government to bring a bill in this regard in the current session of Parliament.
The government had indicated it would talk to various political parties on passage of the bill for which a political consensus already exists.
The consultations assume significance as it happened a day after a meeting of Cabinet ministers convened by the prime minister failed to evolve a consensus on the roadmap for implementing the quota.
Chairman of the Committee, E M Sudarsana Nachiappan, told reporters that though PMK had demanded quota, they had, however, not specified whether it would be quota within reservation or outside it. However, the states were wrested with the rights of giving OBC quota, he said.
The RJD and Samajwadi party had raised a similar demand.
Major political parties including the DMK, AIADMK, Congress, BJP, CPI and CPI (M) wanted the bill to be passed in toto, he said adding almost all political parties wanted the bill to be passed in the forthcoming monsoon session of the Parliament.
The Committee would be conducting hearings in Kolkata and Mumbai before submitting the final report by August 5, he said. It had already conducted hearings in Delhi.
JCHENNAI: The Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) will work for the transfer of education to State list and enactment of a law to regulate self-financing colleges at the national level.
These are among the main aspects of its poll manifesto released by party founder S. Ramadoss at a press conference here on Friday.
The party will urge the new government at the Centre to earmark six per cent of the Gross Domestic Product for education. Fifty per cent of the total outlay for education will be set apart for primary education.
Claiming that Minister for Health Anbumani Ramadoss had given “new and dynamic” direction and path to the development of health sector, the party said the National Rural Health Mission would be expanded and strengthened. The party will strive for stepping up the expenditure on health to three per cent of the GDP.
Talking of its pet themes of making the country free of tobacco and liquor, the manifesto says greater awareness will be created on the harmful effects of tobacco. The party is for providing assistance and incentives to farmers for cultivating cash crops instead of tobacco.
Prohibition will be strictly implemented.
Coming out against the use of genetically modified seeds, the PMK says it will insist on long-term research before the introduction of such crops. Agricultural universities should not be allowed to carry out research on GM crops along with the private sector.
In the case of inter-State water disputes, the party has reiterated its stand on nationalisation of rivers. On special economic zones, the party argues for the repeal of the SEZ Act. It favours special agricultural economic zones. It wants reforms in the power sector.
The party advocates the concept of smaller States and wants the country to be divided into 50 States. It supports the creation of Telangana and trifurcation of Uttar Pradesh.
G.K. Mani, PMK president; A.K. Moorthy, former Union Minister; K. Arumugam and T. Velmurugan, MLAs, were among those present.