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| Student, parent demo outside Akhter's residence | | Demand fee waiver | | Majid Nabi
Early Times Report
Srinagar, Nov 10: A group of aggrieved parents Thursday staged a sit-in protest outside the residence of Education Minister Naeem Akhter here demanding fee waiver for students and immediate instructions to private schools to issue roll number slips of students appearing in 10th and 12th class exams.
Parents under the banner of Kashmir Private Schools Parents Association (KPSPA), gathered outside the Parraypora residence of Naeem Akhter and staged a peaceful sit-in there against alleged harassment and intimidation of students by private schools to deposit four months tuition fee.
The protesting parents also alleged that the roll number slips of those students appearing in secondary and higher secondary examination commencing from November 15 were withheld by the school authorities for failing to deposit their fee.
"This is sheer injustice on part of these selfish school owners who have been taking undue advantage of BOSE authority's announcement of holding exams on time, everyone among us is poor and cannot give fee," Tanveer Ahmad a parent told reporters.
He said that people in Kashmir since past four months are living a distressed life in view of the present situation and are not able to fulfill this 'insatiable' demand of private schools.
"We are poor people who hardly manage two times food for their family, we have been sitting idle since four months, and it is an irony that students who have not attended their schools for even a day are being harassed to deposit fee in full," he said adding, roll number slips of students are withheld with private schools for want of fee.
The protesters appealed the Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti and Education Minister Naeem Akhter to personally intervene in the matter and pass immediate instructions to these schools to stop harassing already distressed students by asking them for fee.
"We want the CM and Education Minister to look into this issue so that the future of our children is saved, this was the government that persuaded students to appear in exams but the way private schools are behaving is shameful and humiliating," he said.
They appealed the government to mount a pressure over these schools and ask them to wave off the student's fee and issue roll number slips to those who are going to appear in exams from 15th of this month. |
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