31 Annexure II Roadmap and Organisational Chart for State/UT Consultations Many objectives could be kept at the centre of the proposed state consultations. However, these are not enumerated here in any details as the need for state consultations has been an undisputed issue within Presidium and Secretariat and the national Executive of AIFRTE. Nonetheless, at this place, at least some basic objectives can be underlined. In the POA, we have already decided for two centralized all-India events in coming few months and constant decentralized campaigns in the states and districts on a host of educational issues. Hence, to start with, the state consultations and resultant structures of consolidation should facilitate the implementation of these decisions with adequate participation of different groups and individuals at their respective local, provincial and national levels. This is the broad immediate objective of state consultations within the federal structure of AIFRTE. Secondly, though not exclusively, yet to a great extent, one galvanizing factor of the present POA is the impending elections, which poses a significant challenge before us to go in public and oppose Neoliberal and communal policies of the state in the sphere of education and strive for an alternative perspective. This would become all the more crucial if the electorate decides for a new political equation at the centre in 2019. The movement will have to then work as a powerful pressure group. Hence, this is yet another logical expectation that the state consultations should serve the long- term objectives of expansion and consolidation of the struggle spearheaded by the AIFRTE. The state consultations should be organized as massive affairs marking an interface of academics, activists, and other members of society in good numbers. State consultations should be conceptualized as the meeting of all the members of National Council and National Executive (representing their respective organizations as well as the individuals) who are drawn from that state; the people who are at the Board of Advisors; supporters of AIFRTE who have still not been incorporated in the forum; people who are personally attached with us but otherwise associated with the AICSS (All-India Council of Student Struggles); and those who belong to any such member organization which is not proactive in AIFRTE, but these persons are individually willing to contribute. State consultations should be a massive affair involving teachers, students, activists, parents, workers, representative of sectional organizations, and social workers. In order to facilitate this process, AIFRTE has prepared some charts as given below. However, these are not exhaustive. These are only indicative charts to start the process. State level organizers are expected to expand these charts further at their own, for which they must follow some core principles as enshrined in several documents of AIFRTE. We can utilize our newsletters and other occasional publications including different Declarations and pamphlets, education manifesto (to be prepared for the Lok Sabha elections of 2019), Programme of Action (POA), calendar of events to be commemorated (annexure IV), and Campaign Associate Membership form (Annexure III) etc as source material during these consultations for diverse purposes. State level groups of key persons should take initiative to organize thought provoking discussion on education and underline the need for collective action through some kind of regular platform, or at least a coordination committee. It should be tried that organizational endeavours are carried out as part of the plan for common minimum programme of struggle through academic and activist
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Annexure II Roadmap and Organisational Chart for State/UT Consultations
Many objectives could be kept at the centre of the proposed state consultations. However, these are
not enumerated here in any details as the need for state consultations has been an undisputed issue
within Presidium and Secretariat and the national Executive of AIFRTE. Nonetheless, at this place, at
least some basic objectives can be underlined. In the POA, we have already decided for two
centralized all-India events in coming few months and constant decentralized campaigns in the states
and districts on a host of educational issues. Hence, to start with, the state consultations and resultant
structures of consolidation should facilitate the implementation of these decisions with adequate
participation of different groups and individuals at their respective local, provincial and national
levels. This is the broad immediate objective of state consultations within the federal structure of
AIFRTE. Secondly, though not exclusively, yet to a great extent, one galvanizing factor of the present
POA is the impending elections, which poses a significant challenge before us to go in public and
oppose Neoliberal and communal policies of the state in the sphere of education and strive for an
alternative perspective. This would become all the more crucial if the electorate decides for a new
political equation at the centre in 2019. The movement will have to then work as a powerful pressure
group. Hence, this is yet another logical expectation that the state consultations should serve the long-
term objectives of expansion and consolidation of the struggle spearheaded by the AIFRTE.
The state consultations should be organized as massive affairs marking an interface of academics,
activists, and other members of society in good numbers. State consultations should be
conceptualized as the meeting of all the members of National Council and National Executive
(representing their respective organizations as well as the individuals) who are drawn from that state;
the people who are at the Board of Advisors; supporters of AIFRTE who have still not been
incorporated in the forum; people who are personally attached with us but otherwise associated with
the AICSS (All-India Council of Student Struggles); and those who belong to any such member
organization which is not proactive in AIFRTE, but these persons are individually willing to
contribute. State consultations should be a massive affair involving teachers, students, activists,
parents, workers, representative of sectional organizations, and social workers.
In order to facilitate this process, AIFRTE has prepared some charts as given below. However, these
are not exhaustive. These are only indicative charts to start the process. State level organizers are
expected to expand these charts further at their own, for which they must follow some core principles
as enshrined in several documents of AIFRTE. We can utilize our newsletters and other occasional
publications including different Declarations and pamphlets, education manifesto (to be prepared for
the Lok Sabha elections of 2019), Programme of Action (POA), calendar of events to be
commemorated (annexure IV), and Campaign Associate Membership form (Annexure III) etc as
source material during these consultations for diverse purposes.
State level groups of key persons should take initiative to organize thought provoking discussion on
education and underline the need for collective action through some kind of regular platform, or at
least a coordination committee. It should be tried that organizational endeavours are carried out as
part of the plan for common minimum programme of struggle through academic and activist
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programmes. Effort should be made to avoid the dreary approach of calling people only for the sake
of being united. Unity should emerge as part of a logical process of discussion through which
interested people are brought together.
IN order to organize state consultations, we have thought of dividing responsibilities at the zonal and
state levels as described below in the chart. The team in charge of a number of states within a zone
put together is only a group to coordination state consultations. Please note that these proposed open-
ended list of persons have a transient crucial role as liaison of state level consultations as logical
distribution of work. These are not to be confused with proposals for any permanent structures of
AIFRTE at zonal level. Those structures of movement should be encouraged to emerge from the
states in due course of time so that scattered struggles could be consolidated and expanded on a more
sustained basis. Of course, the persons as mentioned in the zonal charts can form state level
coordination committees for the purpose of organizing state level consultations; and the rest will be
decided only in the consultations–to retain and expand the coordination committee, or to expand it
into State Platform for sustained work of the movement.
Given all complexities of this entire process of the consolidation of movement and organization
(more would become known to us only when we engage with the process), it will have to be
addressed with requisite sensitivity, flexibility and keeping the appreciation of diversity at the core.
We will although avoid a top-down approach; nonetheless, we have had in past extensive discussions
within the central team about the complexities of this entire process of expansion and consolidation.
Those discussions should guide us. Of course, the new members will have the advantage of exploring
those discussions from the senior ones.
Once following the due process, some people are identified to work together as a group in each state
for the consolidation of struggle at the state level, and they also make some decision of the sharing of
responsibilities amongst themselves, we can review such provincial developments and facilitate the
process through our guidelines about their relationship with the central office and possible structure
of state level organization as well. The opposite practice of framing the rigid blueprint would be
contrary to AIFRTE’s federal structure and faith in diversity. Nonetheless, the consultations must
target some form of sustainable and dynamic structures of the consolidation and expansion of struggle
to achieve the core objectives of AIFRTE. The effort should be to arrive at some working consensus,
rather than a seamless dialogue to settle all disagreements at once forever as the guardian of truth:
avoiding haste, but appreciating time constraints and the need to achieve something concrete should
be our approach. After all, we can always review our decisions after learning through experiences.
We cannot refuse to jump in the water because we do not know swimming particularly when the
flood is all-around us and drowning us.
Notwithstanding all that has been said in the above paragraph, we can, and we will have some
focused discussion on these issues in the days to come. At this juncture, the first two practical
priorities are to distribute the responsibilities and to grab the dates through negotiations with the link
persons and organizations in respective states. These cannot be put on hold for the sake of clarity in
our own minds about the possible nature of such consolidation of struggle and organization.
Chart for Sharing Responsibilities
The following charts are some kind of a proposed roadmap and distribution of responsibilities (dates
yet to be inserted) for the state consultations of AIFRTE central team with individuals, Member
Organizations and Associate organizations already part of the National Executive as well as with
those who have come in our contact or who might be searched as part of this process. The updated
charts will be shared with the concern persons as mentioned in the respective zonal list on email with
contact details. These will be also shared on the website of AIFRTE in the documents of POA 2018-
2019. The first column in the charts below includes the states in that zone, second column includes all
the NE members in concerned states (except from Presidium & Secretariat), third column includes
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persons outside the NE who can be involved in the state consultations, fourth column is of the
secretariat members from the zone, fifth column is of the secretariat members who will be the
secretariat liaison for that particular zone, and the last column is presidium members that are
proposed to be the chairperson of the concerned zonal team (but wherever required, non-Presidium
Members could also work as Chairpersons of these teams).
[Note: The names of the persons in the column ‘Persons from outside NE (National Executive)’ are
proposals only and their consent is pending]
North East Zone
State
Members of NE
(except from
Presidium &
Secretariat)
Persons
from
outside
NE
Secretariat
Members
(from the
zone)
Secretariat
Liaison Presidium
Assam Sri Debasish Dutta
Dr Dinesh Baishya
Prof.
Indranee
Dutta
Com. Surjit
Singh
Thokchom
Com. Surjit
Singh
Thokchom
Prof.
Zhatsu
Terhuja
Manipur Sri Suresh
Thokchom
Meghalaya Ms. Jlina
Kurkalang
Nagaland
Arunachal
Pradesh
Tripura
Mizoram
East Zone
State
Members of NE
(except from
Presidium &
Secretariat)
Persons
from
outside
NE
Secretariat
Members
(from the zone)
Secretariat
Liaison Presidium
Odisha
Sh. Lingaraj
Com.
Sivaram
Com.
Ramesh
Patnaik
Dr. Meher
Engineer
West
Bengal
Ms Barnali
Mukherjee
Sri Kamal
Bannerjee / Sri
Ranjit Roy
Dr Pradip Dasgupta
Jharkhand Dr. CB Choudhary
Sri Mohan Prakash
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North I Zone
State
Members of NE
(except from
Presidium &
Secretariat)
Persons from
outside NE
Secretariat
Members
(from the
zone)
Secretariat
Liaison Presidium
Uttar
Pradesh
Prof. Mahesh
Vikram
Sri Brajesh Yadav
Sri Aflatoon
Prof. D D Dubey
Dr Rakesh Singh
Sri Manoj Tyagi
Sh. Zafar Bakht,
Allahabad
Ms. Roma Malik,
AIUFW, Distt.
Sonbhadra
Dr Swati D Dr Swati D Dr Anil
Sadgopal
Bihar
Sri Navendu
Priyadarshi
Ms Kamayani
Sri Gautam
Sri Shahid Kamal
Sri Ashutosh Kr
Rakesh
Dr. Anil Kumar
Roy
Dr. G. Shankar
Sri Suresh Prasad
Dr. Bhola Paswan
(Genl. Secy,
BAPSS)
Sh. Rajendra
Rajan,
Pragatisheel
Lekhak Sangh,
Begusarai
North II Zone
State
Members of NE
(except from
Presidium &
Secretariat)
Persons
from
outside NE
Secretariat
Members
(from the
zone)
Secretariat
Liaison Presidium
Jammu&
Kashmir
Dheeraj (PSA
representative)
Sri Manik
(PSA)
Prof.
Madhu
Prasad
Punjab
Com. Kanwaljeet
Khanna
Sri Harchand
Bhinder
Sri Narbhinder
Singh
Prof.
Jagmohan
Singh
Haryana
Sri Narbhinder
Singh
Dr Rajendra
Sharma
Ms Kavita Vidrohi
Dr Kush
Uttarakhand
Sri Trepan Singh
Chauhan
Sri Navendu
Mathpal
Rajasthan
Sri DS Paliwal
Sri Upendra
Shankar
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Central Zone
State
Members of NE
(except from
Presidium &
Secretariat)
Persons
from
outside NE
Secretariat
Members
(from the
zone)
Secretariat
Liaison Presidium
Chhattisgarh
Com. Saura Yadav
Sri Janaklal
Thakur
Sri Degree
Chauhan (rep. of
Krantikari
Shikshak
Sangathan)
Com.
Sudha
Bhardwaj
Ms.
Rinchin
Ms. Shreya
Khemani
Com Lokesh
Malti Prakash
Prof. Wasi
Ahmad
Madhya
Pradesh
Ms Madhuri
Sri DD Wasnik
Ms Shashi Mourya
Com Vijay Kumar
Sri Shahid-UL-
Hussaini
Dr Sanjay Sharma
Sh. Zubair
Ahmad,
Bhopal
Prof. S. Z.
Haider,
Bhopal
Sh. Gaurav
Jaiswal,
Seoni
Sh. Priyank
Jain, Ujjain
South I Zone
State
Members of NE
(except from
Presidium &
Secretariat)
Persons
from outside
NE
Secretariat
Members (from
the zone)
Secretariat
Liaison Presidium
Kerala
Dr. Gopa Kumar
Sri P.
Muralidharan
Sri Narayanan
Sri Joshy Jacob
Dr V Prasad
Com.
PrinceGajendra
Babu
Dr V.
Prasad
Prof.
G.Haragopal
Tamil
Nadu
Sri I.P. Kanaka
Sundaram
Prof.
Ramanujam
Dr. C.S. Rex
Sargunam
West Zone
State Members of NE
(except from
Presidium &
Secretariat)
Persons
from outside
NE
Secretariat
Members
(from the
zone)
Secretariat
Liaison
Presidium
Maharashtra Com. Shyam
Sonar
Dr Sugan
Baranth
Sri Abhay
Taksal
Sri Abhijeet
Sri Ajmal
Khan
Sri Vikram
Patil
Com.
Ramesh
Bijekar
Com.
Kaushik
Tekur
Sri
Prabhakar
Arade
Prof. Anil
Sadgopal
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Dr Dilip Chavan
Ms Simantini
Dhuru
Sri Neeraj Jain
Dr. Sharad
Jawadekar
Sri Buddhapriy
Kabir
Ms. Avisha
Kulkarni
Sri Arvind
Vaidya
Dr Milind Wagh
Prof. Wandana
Sonalkar
Ms Suhas
Kolhekar
Sri Datta Dhage
Sri Sudhakar
Sawant
Gujarat Dr Vikram
Amarawat
Dr Amarendra
Pandey
Dr Dhananjai
Rai
Prof.
Sudarshan
Iyengar
Sri Sukhdev
Patel
South II Zone
State Members of NE
(except from
Presidium &
Secretariat)
Persons from
outside NE
Secretariat
Members
(from the
zone)
Secreta
riat
Liaison
Presidium
Karnataka Dr. H. V. Vasu
Sri Hafeezulla
Prof.
Panditaradhya
Dr.
NiranjanaradhyaV.P.
Sri Devanooru
Mahadeva
Ms. Indira
Krishnappa
Com.
Sripad Bhat
Ms. Mallige
Sri Ramesh
Patnaik
Dr.
Gangadhar
Dr H S
Laltu
Sri Kaushik
Tekur
Com.
Sripad
Bhat
Prof. K.
Chakradhar Rao
Andhra
Pradesh
Sri N. V.
Ramanaiah
Sri Y Sathyam
Sri Surendhar
Reddy Banda
Sri C S R Prasad
Sri K.
Subbareddy
Telangana Sri Surendhar
Reddy Banda
Sri C. Baburao
Dr K
Laxminarayana
Sri K Narayana
Sri K
Ravichander
Sri A
NarasimhaReddy
Ms Meera
Sanghamitra
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Delhi Zone
Members of NE
(except from
Presidium &
Secretariat)
Persons from
outside NE
Secretariat
Members (from
the zone)
Secreta
riat
Liaison
Presidium
Dr Vikas Bajpai/ Dr.
Mrigank
Dr. Radhika Menon/
Sri Ravi Rai
Dr Prem Singh
Dr. Sarwat Ali
Prof. Ajit Jha
Dr Ravi Kumar
Dr Shivani Nag
Sri Mohit Pandey
Ms Dipi Pathak
Ms Ayushi Rawat
Dr N Sachin
Com
Subhashini
Com. Parag
Dr Vikas Gupta
Com Premchand
Prof. K L Shrimali
Dr Anand Teltumbde
The state-wise list of Campaign Associates to be involved in the consultations is also under
preparation. Please visit AIFRTE’s website for the complete and updated lists. The link is -