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| Akhter's cold response dismays people | | | Peerzada Ummer
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Aug 23: The Allahabad High Court decision making it mandatory for government employees to admit their wards in government schools has made the Education Minister, Naeem Akhter focus of attention.
Akhter who took measures to upgrade the standard of education in government run schools is undecided for the time being.
Meanwhile, the civil society here has started raising the pitch, asking the government to take cue from the Allahabad High Court decision.
The incumbent Education Minister, finding himself in the middle of crises strived to get away, saying no one could be 'coerced' to admit children in the government schools.
"The fundamental call in this issue is that the education system should be made such as it would attract people to it so that I will not have to coerce people to do that," was how Akhtar tried to entangle the issue further.
However, common masses and JK's civil society has been terming Allahabad High Court decision as a litmus test for the education minister who has taken a slew of measures to bring the education system back on track.
"The education minister has already taken some initiative to revamp the education sector, so let this type of order be passed here as well which will augment the prestige of the government schools," said a civil society member Hameeda Nayeem while talking to reports here.
There are also voices coming from ground which suggest that it must be made mandatory for the government servants to admit wards in the government schools. "It has become a craze here that people from affluent families admit their wards in the private schools. Children of poor people consider themselves caught in a taboo while studying the government schools. Once this red line is erased, everything will get normal," opined one of the parents Mukhtar Ahmad of north Kashmir.
Several parents said that it needs a single order from Akhtar wherein babus could be asked to enrol children in government schools and everything will be followed by normality. "If a child of a senior bureaucrat or a minister is admitted in a government school, it will automatically become a centre of attraction for other parents also," said Farooq Ahmad, a local teacher, adding that teachers teaching in the government schools too would become cautious of imparting quality education to the kids then.
However, the cold response of the education minister to the Allahabad High Court decision has unveiled the fact that how much the helmsmen are serious in ensuring quality education in the government schools
Akhtar's big 'no' to the Allahabad High Court decision has not only aggrieved the parents but has also dismayed those who were optimistic about the major change that they were waiting to witness in the tenure of the incumbent education minister. |
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