HYDERABAD, July 2: Various students’ organizations, at a joint meeting held here on Monday, condemned the proposed denationalization of 18 colleges and 412 schools of the province and opposed the inordinate increase in tuition and other fees.

The meeting, which was sponsored by the Islami Jamiat-i- Tulba, was attended by the representatives of the SPSF (SB), Sindh National Students Front, Sindhi Punjabi Students Association, Jamiat Tulba-i-Islam and the Imamia Students Organization.

The meeting resolved to shun all differences among the organizations and launch a joint struggle to improve academic atmosphere in the educational institutions of the province.

The speakers were of the unanimous opinion that the successive governments — military as well as democratic — had destroyed the educational system in the country as a result of which the standard of education had deteriorated.