allahabad p krishan prasad all india president and sudhir kumar singh state sfi president at a news conference on wednesday flayed the centre and ugc asserting that progressive student and academic would not allow introduction of obscurantist courses like yogic karmakanda and vedic astrology as proposed by ugc in any of the universities in the country the sfi has appealed to the university administration all over the country to reject the reactionary proposal which is an attack on the secular rational and modern education system they maintained they however clarified that the sfi was not against those who are interested in studying vedic astrology or karmakanda according to sfi the rituals and beliefs of a particular caste or faith cannot be imposed on the education system of a secular nation they view this as unconstitutional and a part of the communal design of the rss to convert india into a hindu nation and a hindu version of afghanistan they maintained the nda government was hellbent on commercilising the education system not a single education institution had been started in the government sector during the last three years but over 2000 institutions had been allowed in the private selffinancing sector only those who can pay in thousands and lakhs of rupees could get admission in these institutions the policy of the nda government was antipoor and provided an illegal reservation to the rich they demanded the government to provide admission and scholarship to the economically backward students in all the higher institution the vajpayee government they alleged had betrayed the young generation by violating its own promise in the election manifesto of 1999 to provide one crore job per year instead the government has announced 10 per cent cut in employment in the government sector the lpg policies of the vajpayee government has resulted in large scale devastation of employment they said as per planning commission report 2001 for the first time after independence the number of employees in the organised sector has been decreased by 30 lakhs they pointed out the sfi will organise a statewide march to assembly on september 13 at lucknow along with dyfi to protest the commercialisation and communalisation of education large scale fee hike the antiemployment policy of the nda government the central executive committee of sfi and dyfi will organise an allindia jattha along with 100 student youth rallies at the regional centres all over the country in november and december to mobilise public and students opinion against the proimperialist communal nda government two jathas starting from srinagar and guwahati will address the rallies in various states and will culminate in kerala they informed