About Student's Federation of India in Summer Hill, Shimla

Students Federation of India (SFI) is one of the major student organisations in India. SFI is politically linked to the Communist Party of India (Marxist). Founded in 1970, it claimed a membership strength of nearly 3.5 million school and university students as of 2005.
SFI is currently led at the All India level by Ritabrata Banerjee, General Secretary and P.K. Biju, President.
Though SFI is active throughout India, it is most prominent in student politics in the states of Kerala, West Bengal, and Tripura. It also has some pocket of influence in Tamilnadu, Karnataka, Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh. It has a strong base in the universities all over Kerala and West Bengal . It has a few other strong-holds which include Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, Himachal Pradesh University in Shimla, University of Hyderabad, Osmania University, and University of Rajasthan. It is one of the major student organisations in India and even the world. SFI was founded in 1970.
This group 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 Students Federation of India, abbreviated 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. It includes students from all the academic institutions of India - from schools to colleges, from professional institutions to research academies.
In Tripura there is a special sub-organisation for tribal students, Tribal Students Union.

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