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UP youth groups launch 50-day campaign for education, jobs
Youth groups in Uttar Pradesh announced the 'Justice Morcha' at the Lucknow Press Club on Monday, launching a 50-day statewide campaign from August 12, International Youth Day. The campaign includes a cycle…
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Youth groups in Uttar Pradesh announced the 'Justice Morcha' at the Lucknow Press Club on Monday, launching a 50-day statewide campaign from August 12, International Youth Day. The campaign includes a cycle march from Chaurichaura in Gorakhpur to Kakori in Lucknow (August 20 to October 2), street-corner meetings and dialogues at over 800 colleges, universities and coaching institutes across all 75 districts.
The forum demands an annual recruitment calendar, timely exams, filling all vacant government posts, withdrawal of NEP 2020, transparency in exams, abolition of the NTA, a cap on private school fees, and equal pay for contractual workers. The move follows a 36-day protest at Delhi's Jantar Mantar led by student groups and the Cockroach Janata Party, and the resignation of former Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan.
The Indian Opinion
The Justice Morcha neatly frames every grievance, from paper leaks to private school fees, as a single list, but lumping all demands together risks diluting the most urgent ones. The claim of a 'poor' education system needs sharper data: which districts, which metrics? Two tests will tell if this is more than a press club photo: whether the cycle march attracts real numbers beyond Gorakhpur, and whether the government commits to one concrete ask, such as an annual recruitment calendar.
Source: hindustantimes.com
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