Allocate 6% of GDP to education, says Students' Islamic Organisation of India, Karnataka

With state assembly approaching, the Students’ Islamic Organisation (SIO) of India,Karnataka, has released its manifesto, asking Political Parties to allocate 6% of the state’s gross domestic product (GDP) for Education in theannual budget.

While reiterating that 50% vacancies in TEACHING posts in government schools should be filled up at the earliest, SIO demanded that the government should also try to reduce high school dropout rates among children of parents employed in the unorganised

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As for college education, the manifesto proposed that foreign professors should be invited as guest lecturers to existing universities, instead of having campuses of foreign universities here. Caste and religion-based discrimination should stop at school and college campuses.