Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Sept 29: The recent floods have severely impacted the education system in Kashmir threatening career of thousands of students and creating a situation where the entire education sector faces imminent collapse if nothing is done to save it.
According to the preliminary assessment made by Private Schools United Front (PSUF) the private schools have incurred a loss of around Rs 3000-4000 crores. “Our buildings worth crores have been damaged, we have lost our computers, stationery, school data of more than a decade, record of students, school buses, stationery and other valuable assets,” said G N Var, general secretary PSUF in a press statement.
“Most of our schools were without any insurance cover. We had invested our hard earned money in building up the school infrastructure and now everything is lost,” said Var.
The Front leader further said that the floods have affected thousands of children who are now left with inability to pay their fee or buy books. “In addition our teachers and support staff would also suffer as the schools-in-losses are unable to pay them salaries,” said Var and appealed the Government to come out with a clear-cut policy to save career of affected students.
“A new arrangement or policy is the need of the hour. There are options like Government can opt for mass promotion of students say upto class 7th without affecting students ability to appear in national level competitive tests by maintaining status quo for higher classes. Other options can be worked out too if Government works with private schools to resolve this crisis,” he suggested.
The Front demanded a special education revival package and asked for a monitoring cell to be made of honest officers who will oversee the spending as the present lot of officers has lost their trustworthiness.
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