DSEK to provide free bags to children in govt schools

Move to distribute specially designed bags already started in Jammu

Srinagar: Aiming to encourage enrollment in the government schools, the school education department has started an initiative to distribute free school bags among the school going children at Kindergarten level. The initiative has been taken under the centrally sponsored scheme ‘SamagraShiksha’ wherein the newly enrolled students in government schools are provided with school bags by […]

Droopy: For two consecutive years this govt school showed zero results

Srinagar: A government high school in Nowhatta area of old City has continued to display its poor performance by the producing zero percent results for two consecutive years in the class 10th exams held by JK Board of School Education (BOSE) in the month of October last year. The school had around 10 students enrolled […]

Focus on establishing KV’s in border districts: MHRD tells DSEK

Srinagar:The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) asked the J&K’s school education department to focus on the establishment of KendriyaVidyalaya (KV) in border districts of the state. The directions were given to the state recently during a review meeting of road map devised by MHRD for overall upgradation of the education sector in the state. […]

JKBOSE attempts to cut through physical barriers

Launches Jammu Kashmir Knowledge Network Hub for online interaction

Launches Jammu Kashmir Knowledge Network Hub for online interaction

Lack of toilets in girls’ schools increasing dropout rates, says MHRD

Srinagar: The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has stated that lack of toilets in girl’s educational institutions was a reason for increasing dropout rate at the upper primary levels. In a meeting convened with the school education department, MHRD has asked the deputy commissioner Kupwara and Baraamulla to ensure that all girls’ and co-education […]

33 percent of schools covered under MDM are without kitchen sheds

DSEK says MHRD has been approached, issue will be resolved

Srinagar: The school education department has failed to construct the kitchen sheds for the schools which forms the major component of the centrally sponsored scheme- Mid-Day Meals (MDM). As per the official figures, around over 33 percent of schools in valley, covered under the MDM scheme are without kitchen facilities which has affected the distribution […]

Official apathy, lack of interest killing cross LoC trade

Srinagar: Once termed as ‘Mother of all CBM’s’ the cross LoC trade is finally dying a slow death. From witnessing a substantial reduction in the approved tradable items to a cumbersome barter trading system, the Cross-LoC trade is showing signs of stagnation arousing concerns among the traders community involved in the trade from both sides […]

Art paints miseries of Kashmiris affected by strife

Kochi: The misery of thousands of people from two communities, caught in the ethnic strife in Kashmir three decades ago, has found portrayal at the Kochi Muziris Biennale in this coastal city. A Srinagar Biennale pavilion is part of the ongoing Kochi-Muziris Biennale here, the subcontinent’s biggest art festival of its kind. It is one […]

23 colleges functioning from makeshift buildings in JK

Govt fails to provide permanent campuses for these institutions

Govt fails to provide permanent campuses for these institutions