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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 -

http://aifrte.in/POA-June-2018-May-2019