Curfew was relaxed on Sunday in Srinagar and other major towns of Jammu and Kashmir and the authorities started making preparations for re-opening educational institutions from Monday and conducting the annual examinations. The institutions were shut for over three months owing to strikes and curfew.
Even as hardline Hurriyat Conference leader Syed Ali Geelani had given a relaxation of two days — Saturday and Sunday — in his “protest calendar” and asked people to work normally, the government imposed curfew to break his writ. On Sunday, however, curfew relaxation began a little earlier and it was extended to all areas in a phased manner. “No major untoward incident took place during this period,” a police spokesman said.
The State government has released the date-sheet for examinations for four classes. “We have formulated a plan to reopen all the schools in the rural as well as urban areas, including Srinagar city, from tomorrow [Monday],” Education Minister Peerzada Mohammad Sayeed said at a news conference here.
He had asked officials to ensure that students did not lose a precious academic year due to the unrest. “We will take the necessary steps. Transport facility will be provided to the staff on 11 routes in the city and identity cards of the teaching and non-teaching staff will be treated as curfew passes,” the Minister said.
Appeal to parents
He appealed to parents to send their wards to school as the annual examinations for all the classes, including Secondary and Senior Secondary, will be held in time.
“Examinations will be held in time but in case any student is not able to appear on the given date due to disturbance or violence, a re-examination will be held at a later date,” he noted.
Asked about the possibility of trouble erupting in these institutions as those taking part in protests belong to this age group, he said: “We will try to do our best to ensure that everything goes smoothly.”
Mr. Geelani, on the other hand, asked parents not to send their wards to school on Monday and appealed them to join the complete strike programme. He termed it a “drama” by the State government which, he alleged, had no concern for students' lives or their career.
“Most of those killed in three months are students and how can the government claim that it was concerned about them,” he said.
Keywords: Kashmir education
The Indian government's pseudo-desperate is bearing no fruits as the 90% of schools still remain closed..Please wake up to the ground realities.
yes i think Gelani`s call(asked parents not to send their wards to school on Monday and appealed them to join the complete strike programme) for student today is absolutely wrong. because the children are the future of our state . if they will stay at home then who will play this state in future. I am also student here in kashmir. if i will stay at some and not join the classes and for some time later the Government will give us the freedom. what kind of freedom will be that! i will be illiterate that time!....
just tell me suppose i am illiterate, i am not able to speak, i am not able to communicate with others due to illiteracy....is this freedom for me!...
Kashmiri people says that we want freedom, but i think they must know that what is the meaning of freedom, if india will give us the freedom after then we have to make the borders(border line) that means we will become more closed in he glass.
see, first there was conflict between Indian and British, after then there was conflict between india and pakistan and now there is fight between indian troops and kashmiri people why (reason is freedom).
remember you will see in future there will be fight among the sikh, shia, sunni etc...
it is not the solution to fight each other and make the borders in little places and destroy your life. we have cooperate each other.all are humans there is not any religion there is only humanity... in this world there live two types of people, that is right people and wrong people. we have to make friendship each other that will be the solution of the kashmir as well as india.
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