Early Times Report
bandipora, Oct 29: Minister for Education today said the Department of Education will start evening classes at Women's College Jammu and Srinagar from the next academic session. He said to begin with evening classes would be started in nursing course.
"The healthcare industry will face immense dearth of skilled labour in coming years. The evening classes will not only take care of employment problem in some measure, but it will also breathe a fresh life into the dull academic atmosphere in our state," he said
The Minister was speaking as the chief guest on the Annual Parents Day function at Government Girls Higher Secondary School, Bandipora. He was accompanied by MLA Bandipora, Usman Majeed, DDC Bandipora, Sajad Ahmad Ganai, Chief Education Officer, Bandipora, Shadi Lal Tengloo, Senior Superintendent of Police, Bandipora, Shabir Hussain and other officials of the civil and police administration.
"We should churn out a complete human being in our school, who becomes an asset and positively contributes to the social, economic and political development of our State," he said.
The Minister said the state of education in Bandipora, which has produced iconic personalities in various fields, remains a worry, but he hoped that the district will usher into a change which will set new benchmarks for the entire state.
Lauding the staff of GHSS Bandipora, he said the school gravely contradicts the general impression about the state of education in Bandipora. "We have to introspect why this change is not percolating to other areas of the district," he said. |
