KV Correspondent

Facelift: Schools operating from rented spaces to miss out on up-gradation

Facelift: Schools operating from rented spaces to miss out on up-gradation

Srinagar: While the school education department has started an exhaustive exercise for facelift of the government run educational institutions, the schools functioning from rented accommodations are given step motherly treatment with no facilities being provided to the students enrolled in these institutions. As a policy matter, the school education department has fixed a target to […]

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Faculty recruited under FIP in colleges seek release of salary

Srinagar: The substitute teachers engaged in various degree colleges under Faculty Improvement Programme (FIP) of University Grants commission (UGC) continue to go without salary for more than one year now. The agitated teachers working in various colleges said they have not received their salary from the UGC for past one year. They said the salary […]

 KV Correspondent

Pulwama attack fallout: CRPF to procure more shielded vehicles to escape IED blasts

Pulwama attack fallout: CRPF to procure more shielded vehicles to escape IED blasts

New Delhi: The CRPF will procure a new fleet of mine protected vehicles (MPVs) and small 30-seater buses to ensure safety of its troop convoys in the Kashmir Valley, the chief of the force has said. The paramilitary has also decided to enhance the number of its bomb detection and disposal squads (BDDS) for its […]

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Our regularization being prolonged, say SSA teachers

Srinagar: The school education department has come under severe criticism for withholding the regularisation of hundreds of teachers recruited under erstwhile Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) scheme in the department. The teachers said their five years tenure was completed in 2017 and 2018 but the Directorate of School Education Kashmir (DSEK) was delaying the issuance of […]

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Er Rasheed files nomination papers to test water in LS polls from Bla constituency

Er Rasheed files nomination papers to test water in LS polls from Bla constituency

'Akbar Lone’s statement indicates that BJP-NC alliance is on cards'

Baramulla: Awami Itehaad Party (AIP) president and former MLA Langate, Engineer Abdul Rasheed Sheikh on Monday filed nomination papers for the upcoming parliamentary elections from Baramulla constituency. Er Rasheed after filing nomination papers at Baramulla accused National Conference (NC) of adopting ‘Hippocratic attitude’, asking the party to come clean on its alliance with Congress. Talking […]

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ADC Tral meets officers

Kar Irshad Tral: Additional Deputy Commissioner Tral Shabir Ahmad Raina called upon two meetings of Officers in his office chambers at Revenue Complex Tral Monday The first meeting was called with the officers of Rural Development Department, R&B Department, PHE, PDD and Zonal Education officers of zone Tral and zone Lurgam. On the assurances given […]

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Public Park in Kupwara turned into a garbage dumping site

Wasim Majnoon Mir Kupwara: A Public Park, constructed by Tourism Department in the heart of town here has been turned into a garbage dumping site with people alleging that the concerned department was watching all this as mute spectator. Constructed in 2010 with a cost of around Rs 25 lakh by Lolab-Bungus-Drungyari Tourism Development Authority […]

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Students bear brunt of Baramulla encounter, schools closed for 10 days

Students bear brunt of Baramulla encounter, schools closed for 10 days

Srinagar: The students enrolled in the government schools in Bandi Village of Baramulla district had to bear the brunt of the encounter between militants and government forces that left two militants dead. A day after encounter was over, the district administration in Baramulla have ordered for closure of all educational institutions located in Bandi village […]

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Five militants, minor boy killed in separate encounters

Five militants, minor boy killed in separate encounters

Protests staged in Sopore, Pulwama and Shopian: dozens injured

Protests staged in Sopore, Pulwama and Shopian: dozens injured

 KV Correspondent

Enrolment in govt schools continues downslide

Srinagar: Bellying the tall claims of the state government to increase the enrollment in government educational institutions across valley, the oldest schools established by the department are witnessed decrease in the enrollment while as dozens are at the verge of closure in different districts. Over the past two years, around a dozen of government schools […]