Promoted four years back teachers still awaiting formal orders
Srinagar: The school education department has come under severe criticism for delaying issuance of conformation orders of more than 200 teachers who were promoted as in-charge masters some four years ago. A group of aggrieved in-charge masters accused the department of adopting selective approach in issuing formal orders in favour of teachers whose promotion has […]
Almond’s fail to satiate growers taste
‘From 16,775 hectares in 2001, land under almond orchards shrinks to 3630 hectares’
‘From 16,775 hectares in 2001, land under almond orchards shrinks to 3630 hectares’
Situation in education department turns chaotic as key positions left vacant
Srinagar: The School Education Department in Kashmir has been left on crutches as two dozen posts of zonal education officers (ZEOs) in Kashmir region have been left vacant. The unfilled posts have exposed the non-seriousness of the department in filling the key positions which play an important role at the ground level in the department. […]
30 years on, return to homeland eludes Kashmiri Pandits
Jammu: Seventy-nine-year-old Mohan Lal has a last wish: To live the remainder of his life along with “my community” and die in “my homeland”. Sitting in his hut at Jagti camp on the outskirts of Jammu city, Lal, who is among the seven lakh-odd Kashmiri Pandits who had to flee Kashmir Valley in the wake […]
Nurses complain poor wages in private sector, complain to govt
Srinagar: While private hospitals in the Valley are providing quality healthcare to the patients, these are, however, violating labour laws and regulations by offering peanuts in the name of salary to their staff, especially to the nursing staff. As per the SRO 460 of 2017, the Nurses fall in the Highly Skilled Category, and are […]
Faking class 10 results: Schools detain 50 percent students to get cent percent results
Srinagar: Bellying the tall claims of the school education department in bolstering the performance of the students in class 10th exams, most of the schools detained more than 50 percent students to achieve 100 percent results in the class10th exams. For instance, in Kupwara district the school heads didn’t allow all the enrolled students to […]
DSEK initiates action against non-performing teachers
Srinagar: Taking a serious note of the poor performance of the government schools in class 10th exams, the education department has initiated action against the concerned school headmasters and the teachers of these schools. To begin with, the Chief Education Officer (CEO) Srinagar on Tuesday issued suspension order of 11 teaching faculty members including three […]
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. […]