Students of at least 10 schools and colleges will attend Anna’s dharna and 25 city-wide rallies will wind their way to the venue.
All roads will lead to Freedom Park on Saturday as thousands will converge there to see and hear veteran Gandhian and ant-corruption crusader, Anna Hazare.
Students of at least 10 city schools and colleges will be brought in while about 25 rallies from various parts will wind their way to the venue.
Prithvi Reddy, coordinator of India Against Corruption (IAC), said at least 10 schools and colleges have promised to send their students to the park.
“While schools are bringing their students in buses along with their teachers, a number of colleges have given the day off to students. They too have offered to provide their students transport to the park,” he said. RV College, Jain University, St Joseph’s Arts and Science College, New Horizon College, Government Arts and Science College and RV College of Engineering will each be sending about 100 students to the park.
“We’re providing two buses for students who want to go to the park. We’ve cancelled special classes and internal exams that had been planned for the day to help students who want to take part in the function,” said Dr Shanmukha Nagaraj, department of mechanical Engineering, of RV College. He said students from other institutions belonging to RV Group would be participating at the function.
Surana College, National College, Sri Krishna College and Cambridge School, too, have promised to send their students to the park. Students inspired by Anna have been debating the movement against corruption, according to Professor Chandramouli of Surana College. “Right now, students are divided over the issue. There are many who think such a movement would have been practical in a smaller country, but not in a vast country like India. They believe the pace of the movement will eventually die down. But there are an equal number of people who believe the movement will be successful,” he said. Debates on corruption have been going on in the city’s academic institutions after Anna launched the campaign.
“Thanks to that, there is more awareness now,” said Dr Shanmukha Nagaraj. “People, especially students, no longer ignore the problem and think it is part of the system they cannot change. But they are looking at alternatives, debating it and trying to find a way out,” Nagaraj said. He believes such social activism on the part of the student community is a good thing.
“It makes them sensitive to what is going on around them,” he said.
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