School Students Protest for Basic School Amenities in UP

Safe drinking water, functional fans, clean toilets, library... Armed with a lengthy charter of demands, hundreds of students at a school here staged a five-hour demonstration, to which the administration succumbed and said yes. Inspiration or imitation? The protest at the Sarvodaya Inter College in Kishanpur on Tuesday could be either. Coming days after the Cockroach Janta Party-spearheaded stir over the NEET paper leak galvanised lakhs of students, videos of the protest at the Kishanpur school quickly went viral -- with



some calling the youngsters 'Gen Alpha'.

The vibrant placards and portraits of Dr B R Ambedkar held high in the backdrop of the waving Tricolour as students protested against poor school infrastructure, invoked images from the recent nationwide protests over alleged paper leaks.

The students alleged lack of basic facilities at the institution. The fervent agitation brought authorities to their toes, who assured protesters that corrective measures would begin within 24 hours.