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Lok Satta Party national President Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan will be addressing an educational conference in Chennai on Saturday, September 15, on the subject 'An agenda for change in school education.'

The conference is being organized by iDiscoveri, an organization founded by two Harvard graduates in 2002, to promote experimental learning in the class-room.

Among the participants in the conference are Prof. Noel Trichy of University of Michigan, Mr. Ashish Rajpal, founder and CEO of IDiscoveri, Ms. Vinita Bali, MD & CEO, Britannia Industries, Dr. Shekar Seshadri, child psychiatrist, Mr. Govindraj Ethiraj, former editor-in-chief of Bloomberg UTV, Ms. Shobhana Ramachandran, founder of TVS Schools and Ms. Nirmala Sundaram associated with Lalaji Omega Schools.

Dr. JP will interact with Gurunanak College students in the morning and Lok Satta Party workers in the afternoon.

The Lok Satta Party today demanded that the State Government go in appeal immediately in the Supreme Court against the judgment of the High Court striking down the GOs facilitating on-line admission of students under management quota in engineering colleges during 2012-13.

In a media statement, Lok Satta Party General Secretary Katari Srinivasa Rao pointed out that in the absence of transparent, on-line admissions, managements of some reputed private engineering colleges not merely collect the higher fees fixed by the Government but also fleece students by collecting a capitation fee.

Pending the outcome of the Government appeal in the Supreme Court, the State Government should appoint a task force to monitor admissions under management quota in colleges notorious for collecting capitation fees.

Mr. Srinivasa Rao also suggested that the Government fix a uniform registration fee considering that some colleges have been charging exorbitant rates viewing it as an additional source of revenue. In the absence of online admissions, students have to submit separate applications for each college and each course, he added.