A Statement regarding Students Union by
Chaudhary Charan Singh
The State Government has recently promulgated
an Ordinance with a view to ensure that students are no longer compelled to
join one single Union but in the interest of a healthy corporate life, remain
free to organise any number or type of Unions or associations as they choose. I
would appeal to the people in general and the students in particular, for
cooperation. Instead of ensuing to the benefit of students, these compulsory
unions have more often been used as instruments of coercion of teachers, the
Vice-Chancellors and the Government. The students should know that harsh facts
of life await them outside the secure precincts of their colleges and
universities. It is with a view to wrestle with these facts that they have to
prepare themselves today. They have also to remember that the country and its
future belongs largely to their generation. It is faced with all sorts of
problems which need no elaboration. Let them resolve to make it great and
prosperous and once again worthy of the respect of the world. For this, hard,
unremitting toil in all spheres of private and public life will be required.
There is no example of a man or a country which has idled away its time, and
yet attained eminence.
In the end, I would like to warn the
mischief-mongers amongst the students, who may be in search of unmerited
leadership and publicity, and also all those others who would fain exploit the
students for their own ends, that no amount of agitation will avail. Government
is determined to see in the interests of students themselves, that peace in
educational institutions is maintained and they remain temples of learning that
they were designed to be.
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