CANACONA
Beginning with intensive demands for 50% bus concession and the two scandals, the inspiring history of Goa’s students’ movement of the 1970s and the 80s will be unfolded with first-person accounts by the former student leaders in the State.
ManoShobha Kalaghar, a cultural Centre set up in Loliem village of Canacona, will serialise the history of the students’ movement.
It will include significant historical agitations as well as work done by students’ unions in the fields of literature, the monthly magazine, the theatre including street theatre, village camps, public welfare amongst other achievements of the students.
Edition 1.0 of the programme, called Ganthvol, will be launched on September 28 in association with Palash Agnii Studios.
The first-person accounts will include the historic 50% Bus Concession agitation of 1978-79 as well as joint agitations against two GMC scandals about reserved seats and the marks scandal.
Former students’ leader Mohandas Lolienkar will speak about Goa’s first mass-level students’ agitation he had led for the 50% bus concession.
Adv Cleofato Almeida Coutinho, who was the general secretary of the All Goa Students’ Union, will speak on the two agitations he had led simultaneously for the reserved seats at the Goa Medical College and the marks scandal involving a former minister to get his niece admitted at the GMC.
Many other student leaders, who had participated in both the agitations, will also provide their inputs at these sessions.
The session on the 50% bus concession will be moderated by Sankalp Gaunkar, a student of the VMS College of Law and President of Centre for Political Leadership. Dr Sachin Moraes, HoD at the Sociology Department in Chowgule College, will moderate the session on the GMC scandals.
The programme will be held between 4 pm to 7 pm and is open for the public.
ManoShobha Kalaghar General Secretary Sudesh Prabhudesai has appealed to the younger generation, especially the student community to attend the programme in large numbers.
