Students Federation of India (SFI) is one of the major student organisations in India. Founded in 1970. As of 2014, it claims a membership strength of nearly 5 million school and university students.[1] SFI is currently led at the All India level by Ritabrata Banerjee, General Secretary and V. Sivadasan, President. The Students’ Federation of India (SFI) is a Socialist organization. The slogan of
the SFI is “Independence, Democracy, and Socialism!”
The SFI believes that education is a major tool of social transformation and that this concept is especially relevant in a country like India, where regressive forces still prevail. Proper education, they believe, will counteract such forces and will help to build a new society based on rationality and justice. The SFI is an organization of students which is ever aware of its role in society. It identifies with a society's progressive forces and is totally committed to the idea of independence, democracy, and socialism.
