Evening classes in nursing to be started in 2 colleges from next session: Akhtar

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Daily Excelsior
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Excelsior Correspondent
BANDIPORA, Oct 29: Minister for Education, Naeem Akhtar 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,” Mr Akhtar 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.
Expressing satisfaction at the changes affected through the process of rationalisation in the Education Department, Mr Akhtar said more needs to be done and the teacher community should rise to the occasion and bring about a revolution so that Jammu and Kashmir sets standards in the field of education.
The Minister said he is facing the challenge of optimally using the infrastructure and the human resource of the Education Department built over the last 70 years. “We have to become the owners of our schools. We have to make the teachers accountable,” he said.
Meanwhile, in an effort to turn Jammu and Kashmir into a polythene-free state, Education Minister said the Department of Education will set up paper bag-making units in various schools across the State.
Directing the civil and police administration to strictly implement the ban on polythene bags in Bandipora and penalise the offenders, Mr Akhtar said the capacity of the paper-bag unit set up by the Education Department at Girls Higher Secondary School (GHSS), Bandipora, will be enhanced to cater to the needs of the town.

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