Progressive Students Federation

PrSF aims to raise political and social awareness among students for their democratic rights, for restoration of student unions, to organize students in educational institutions and outside, to create a strong and organized students’ movement that will lay the foundation for an affordable, uniform, fair, democratic, secular, modern and scientific education system.^[10]

The activities organised by PrSF include weekly study circles,^[12] on topics of students' rights, revival of banned students' unions in education campuses,^{[13][14][15][16]} budget cuts of education. PrSF campaigned against anti-student policies, pushed a bill on students' unions' restoration in Senate,^[17] and organized annual student marches in 2018,^[18][19] 2019,^{[20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29]} 2020^[30] 2021^[31] and 2022.^[32][4] Street theatres on students rights were also performed during these students' marches.^[33][34]

PrSF jointly organized and participated in events with other allies against religious extremism such as Songs of freedom, 2018^[35] Mashal March, 2019^{[36][37][38][39]} in addition to annual Women's rights' marches,^{[40][41][42][43][44]} climate march,^[45] flood relief,^[46] climate justice,^[47] students’ housing rights march.^[48] During the pandemic, PrSF protested against the lack of internet facilities for online education for students in peripheral areas of country,^{[49][50][51][52][53]} and the limited access to education for women, as well as unsafe environment for women at campuses.^[54][55][56]

While demanding for students' rights, PrSF members had to face censorship from rightwing groups,^[57][58] and even through arrests.^[59] PrSF also organised protests for the laborers’ rights,^{[60][61][62][63]} forced displacement,^[64][65] inflation and price hike,^[66] trans rights,^[67] anti-imperialism etc.^[68] PrSF formed the alliances with other progressive groups such as Students Action Committee,^[69] Hyderabad Students Alliance^[70] Leftwing groups' alliance^[71] and United Democratic Front (UDF) etc.^[72]