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| Parents, students question Akhtar's 'exams on time' statement | | How could exams be held with mere 40% syllabus completed? | | Peerzada Ummer
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Aug 23: The recent statement of the Jammu and Kashmir's education minister Naeem Akhtar- indicating no relaxation in the board exams this year- is being unanimously ridiculed by the parents, terming it government's bizarre diktat and anti-people move.
Scores of parents on Tuesday, a day after Akhtar's statement, said that the syllabus of their kids who study in class 10th and 12th isn't even 40 percent complete and conducting the exams for the entire coarse study would plunge the future of their kids in chaos and uncertainty.
Minister of Education Naeem Akhtar on Monday directed the J&K BOSE to prepare for conducting all board examinations, including of class 10th and 12th, on time in Kashmir division.
The Minister gave the directions during a review meeting of education department. The meeting was attended by Commissioner Secretary Education, Director School Education Kashmir, Director School Education Jammu, Secretary BOSE, Director RMSA and other officials.
While chairing the meeting, the Minister directed the BOSE to set in motion its men and machinery to prepare the ground for smooth conduct of all coming Board examinations including Class 10th and 12th. He also directed BOSE to declare the results of bi-annual board exams as soon as possible.
"The schools functioned for mere three months and that was in April, May and June. How could there be annual exams when there is not even 50 percent of syllabus complete in Class 10th and 12th," says Farooq Ahmad, a Srinagar resident whose daughter is this year appearing in class 12th annual exams.
Another parent Mukhtar Ahmad of Zakura told Early Times that not even the mid- term exams of his children were held as unrest griped valley at the very onset of July after the killing of the Hizb militant Burhan Wani. "There is curfew. The schools are closed and so are the tuition centres. If the government has decided to hold annual exams on time, it should have assessed the ground situation before thrusting the decision of such nature upon the children here," says Mukhtar.
Kashmir valley has been reeling under curfew since July 9 and even on day 46th of continuous restrictions; normal life continues to remain paralysed.
Furthermore, parents across Kashmir accuse the education minister of 'playing with the future' of children by compelling them to appear in the exams for the subjects that they haven't finished studying and have completed meagre 40 percent of it. "It is the government has decided to hold exams on time and not to postpone them- it should consider holding exams for that portion of the syllabus only that has been completed by the students till the schools were last closed," says Zahoor Mir, a parent hailing from north Kashmir.
Meanwhile, if sources are to be believed, the education department itself isn't ready to hold the annual exams in very near future. "There are so many tasks yet to undertaken. We will have to channelize the efforts ahead of making any announcement vis-a-vis holding of the annual exams in Kashmir," says a senior official of education department. |
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