Pulwama ‘terror’ attack won’t be forgotten: NSA Doval
Gurgaon: India has neither forgotten nor will forget the Pulwama terror attack and the country’s leadership is “capable and courageous” to mete out effective responses to such acts, NSA Ajit Doval said Tuesday. Speaking for the first time about the attack in which 40 CRPF personnel were killed on February 14 in Jammu and Kashmir, […]
Pathetic: 200 kids enrolled in a middle school jostle in a two room space
Srinagar: Signifying the poor state of affairs in the school education department, a Middle School in Srinagar outskirts is functioning from a shabby two room structure. The department has left the school unattended despite having enrolment of more than 200 students in the school. Government Girls Middle School (GMS) at Boatman Colony in Bemina area […]
Pupil teacher ratio still a concern in govt schools
Srinagar: Bellying the tall claims of the school education department to streamline the pupil-teacher ratio (PTR) in government schools, the educational institutions in Kashmir are overstaffed in most of the district while the student enrollment is going down drastically. In Srinagar district the enrollment in government schools has decreased this year by 35 percent as […]
Permanent campuses for KGBV residential schools fail to come up in JK
Srinagar: There seems to be no headway in the completion of the permanent campuses for the Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV) residential schools. More than seven year have passed but the successive regimes have failed to complete the construction of the buildings, leaving the girl students without proper accommodations and hampering the implementation of the […]
Indo-Pak relations: Animosity is a reality, but History too cannot be ignored
New Delhi: Gujarat in India, Gujrat in Pakistan; Hyderabad here and also there; Delhi Gate in Lahore and Lahori Gate in Patiala. Then there is the favourite sweetmeat of many Indians, the Karachi halwa, while the Pakistanis relish Bengali samosa. Some names have withstood the uneasy decades since Partition, standing out like little beacons of […]
‘Uncaring’ for the girl child
Govt failed to construct hostels for girl students
Srinagar: The school education department has miserably failed to complete the construction work on girls’ hostels sanctioned by ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) under the erstwhile RMSA scheme. The hostels were approved for educationally backward blocks (EBBs) of J&K state wherein 39 were supposed to come up in Kashmir, 24 in Jammu and five […]
MHRD augments annual grants for govt schools in JK
Move set to improve academic output in the state
Move set to improve academic output in the state
Polling booths in schools: Officials fear disruption in schooling, academics
Srinagar: The decision for designating polling stations in educational institutions is likely to disrupt the academics in schools this year. The Election Commission of India (ECI) has designated hundreds of polling stations in schools in all the districts across Kashmir. A top official said the schools will be taken over by the paramilitary forces on […]
Students express reservations in joining back their classes in outside colleges
Div Com says admin, police will provide all assistance to students
Srinagar: Fearing attacks and intimidations, the Kashmiri students studying in outside colleges and universities have asked the J&K government to ensure their safety while returning to their respective institutions. The students have asked the administration to constitute a nodal agency which will coordinate with the local administrations in outside states and police in order to […]
Private schools fail to provide NOC’s required for seeking registration
Srinagar: The private schools in J&K state have failed to submit the requisite certificates for seeking recognition and extension of registration for the schools. In wake of this, the school education department has asked both the directorates to submit the requisite certificates related to lab chemical safety, building safety, fire and emergency along with a […]