Gen Z protests spur government change, but structural reforms still needed, says Sripad Bhat

Writer and activist B. Sripad Bhat delivering a talk on students protest in Shivamogga on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT The Gen Z protesters succeeded in forcing the Modi government to act at the operational level, while civil society has the responsibility to draw on the spirit of the youth movement and work out strategies to bring about change at the structural and policy level, said B. Sripad Bhat, a writer and activist.Delivering a lecture on the recent students’ protest against the NEET-UG paper leak, at a programme organised by Namma Balaga in Shivamogga on Wednesday, Mr. Bhat said forcing the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, who was replaced by Pralhad Joshi, amounted to a change at the operational level.“What the students achieved was not