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| Students question Nayeem's absence | | 'He should have been around to encourage examinees' | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Nov 21: At a time when the student fraternity in Kashmir is defying the separatist call and braving the threat by appearing in annual exams of Class 10th and 12th, questions are being raised from all corners over education minister's absence from ground and logic behind issuing diktats from Jammu.
"The education minister should have been here in Kashmir, encouraging students and hailing them for appearing in exams despite severe threats. But he is in Jammu and hasn't deemed it necessary to even pay a single visit to any exam centre here," a group of parents said while waiting for their wards outside one of the exam centres in old city.
Others seconded their views, lamenting that despite severe hardships and threat perception the students have appeared in the board exams. They said they should have been atleast visited once by the incumbent minister of education. "It was the education minister who was on the fore front exhibiting tough posture over the conduction of board exams on time. Now when half of the papers have been finished, the education minister didn't visit our kids once in the centres," Showkat Ahamd, a parent said.
Students too joined the chorus, lamenting that the authorities should have been atleast encouraging the student fraternity for taking such a brave step that too after the logjam of more than four months was witnessed in Valley. "The education minister had once become the ambassador of putting education back on track. Wasn't he morally duty bound to remain in Valley during such testing times? He rather preferred to stay in Jammu and isn't ready to brave the chill that students are facing in exam centres," a group of class 12th candidates said.
They maintained further that when arsonists reduced educational institutions to rubble and threatened students of dire consequences if they appear in exams, the incumbent minister of education was duty bound to boost the morale of the student fraternity. "Such a situation in Valley has been witnessed for the first time and we were expecting our minister to remain on ground to act as a captain of ship that is striving amidst the tempest to reach at the shore," students told Early times.
Meanwhile, sources within the Board of School Education (BOSE) Kashmir divulged that they were expecting education minister's visit to Valley during the exams. "The Present examination schedule is not a routine one. It was the toughest we ever witnessed in our careers. The fact is that we were expecting that the minister of education would visit valley atleast one to send a clear message that he is holding the reins of education in the state," BOSE sources said.
Pertinently, the present exam schedule was finalised by the government amid much furore with many voicing concern over students' safety during the current wave of turbulence that engulfed Kashmir Valley after the killing of Hizb commander Burhan Wani. The separatists have been continuing with their weekly protest calendars, hence putting the entire system at the serious halt. |
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