Excelsior Correspondent
SRINGAR, Sept 19: Jammu Kashmir People’s Welfare Society (JKPWS), chairman and veteran Trade Union leader, Mir Ghulam Rasool Batvini has urged the Government not to play with the career of lakhs of students in the UT of J&K reading in private schools existing on State or Kascharai land.
The Society in a meeting here, today made an appeal to Lt Governor, Manoj Sinha seeking his intervention in the matter. It urged him that Government should review its decision in this regard. It said that some of these schools were running from last over four decades and the then Governments were fully aware of the same. Mir said though his organization does not suspect the intensions of the Government which has pounced upon land grabbers who had encroached State and Kascharai land in J&K for decades together in connivance with officials of Revenue Department but at the same time a lenient view be taken in case of private schools existing on Kaschrai or State land as the decision has put the future of lakhs of students at stake.
Mir said the Government instead of forcing these institutions to restore the land to Government by closing their schools will give rise to unemployment as thousands of teachers and other staff members are serving in these public institutions. Instead of asking these institutions to restore the land to Government, the land on which these schools are existing should either be transferred or leased out to them by framing a concrete policy in this regard so that the future of students and staff is saved from jeopardy.
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