Mou Chakraborty
Kolkata, August 24, 2007
The SFI will now reach out to college students to teach them the art of running students’ unions in colleges and universities.
For the first time, the SFI will arrange workshops for students’ union leaders from all colleges, where SFI leads the union or has a unit. At present, the unions at 358 of 400 colleges in Bengal are run by the SFI. “We have taken this step to ensure that our students’ union gains strength. With every passing year, our union base is becoming stronger. It is our responsibility to improve our organisational structure. The leaders will interact with students’ leaders at the grassroots level and groom them,” said Apurbo Chatterjee, state secretary of the SFI.
The general secretary, president and cultural secretary of all SFI-run unions will attend thee one-day workshop, which will focus on a host of topics such as how to build an organisation, what are the education-related issues the students’ unions need toaddress, how to conduct the daily activities of the union as well discussion on ideological issues.
The SFI has drawn up a 25-point guideline, which it will share with the students’ leaders. The students will also be briefed on the organisational structure of the SFI.
The first workshop will be held at Vidyasagar University on Wednesday and at Burdwan University the next day. North Bengal University will host the workshop on September 8 followed by Kalyani University on September 18. A single workshop will be held for all colleges under Calcutta University, Bengal Engineering and Science University and Jadavpur University on September 19.
The SFI has also called a students’ convention in Kolkata on September 27. Chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Left Front chairman Biman Bose will address the students on the occasion.
mou.chakraborty@hindustantimes.com
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