JAMSHEDPUR: Amidst growing incidents of intolerance on caste and communal lines, the Students Islamic Organization of India SIO ), a student's wing of Jamaat-e-Islami-Hind , has decided to convene an all-India conference in Delhi later this month with an agenda to work on effective remedies in order to curb the violence stemming from hate towards religious minorities and weaker sections like the scheduled caste (SC) and the scheduled tribe (ST)."What changes should be made to our education policy to help promote intellectual quotient of the students and them accommodative as well as evolve them to learn to give space to dissent will be discussed and a roadmap will be formulated at the end of the three-day conference," said senior functionary of the national body of SIO, Masiuzzama Ansari on Thursday. Ansari was in the Steel City to take stock of the preparations of the outfit ahead of the Delhi convention. The SIO functionary who is on a Jharkhand visit will travel to Ranchi and Hazaribagh this week to take stock of the preparations of the outfit in the respective towns ahead of the event which will be held on February 23-25 at Jamiya nagar. The event organisers expect a participation of 10,000 delegates from different academic and social fields.Expressing pain and anguish over growing atrocities on dalits and adivasis on non-issues, the bid to grab the tribal people's land by the corporate organisations and capitalists against their wishes besides a spurt in the incidents relating to attacks on Muslims in the recent years, the SIO functionary said education alone is the tool to empower the vast population of the dalits and adivasis and Muslim youths."Nearly 80 percent of the government school students are dalits, muslims and adivasis. Ironically, at these government schools, the level of education is abysmally poor," claimed Ansari. "The best way to improve the education of the government primary schools is to upgrade them on the lines of Kendriya Vidyalaya," said Ansari.

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