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Neha Bora takes mic, demands NTA scrapping, invokes Tagore, Khudiram

Neha Bora takes mic, demands NTA scrapping, invokes Tagore, Khudiram
When Neha Bora takes the mic at north Calcutta's Rammohun Library, Tagore and Khudiram are invoked · telegraphindia.com

A big crowd of people came to a library in Kolkata, India, to hear a young woman speak.

Her name is Neha Bora, and she is 25 years old.

So many people came that the room was full, and others watched her on a big screen outside.

Neha talked about how government-run student exams were not being conducted well.

She said that some people were involved in leaking exam papers, and the agency in charge should be shut down.

She also said that the country's new education plan should be rolled back.

Neha told the crowd that people in power must be accountable to the public.

She spoke about schools that had closed in her state and said they should be reopened.

The event was on the same day that freedom fighter Khudiram Bose was executed long ago, and Neha remembered him.

Many people cheered for her, and she had to push through the crowd to reach her car.

Key facts

Speaker
Neha Bora, 25, of AISA/CPI(ML)
Venue
Rammohun Library, north Calcutta
Date
Tuesday, August 11 (Khudiram Bose martyrdom anniversary)
Crowd response
Hall overflowed; giant screen and extra chairs arranged outside
Key demands
Scrap the NTA and roll back the NEP
Key allegation
More than 8,000 public schools closed in Bengal under the Trinamool government (per activists)
On the minister
Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation not enough; structural reforms needed

Quotes

Neha Bora

25‑year‑old activist and speaker

“"When he says, ‘Where knowledge is free; where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls’, it means we must build a society where 8,000 public schools are not shut."”
telegraphindia.com

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