Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Nov 9: The Private Schools United Front (PSUF) of Kashmir has alleged un-necessary harassment from police and district administration despite the issue of examinations having already been resolved in consultation with officials of Education Department.
The front accused the police and district administration of unnecessarily raiding the schools over non-existent issues. “It seems the district administration and police have no other work but to raid schools full of small kids,” said general secretary of the association G N Var. “Legally they have no ground and their presence on our campuses is unjustified. It is pure harassment of school staff who are engaged in imparting education, ” he said.
“In certain cases, schools were raided and told not to conduct class test. Are we not allowed to even conduct weekly tests?” asked Var and suspected that the authorities wanted to create an atmosphere of terror so that schools are closed down prematurely. “We were thinking of holding special winter camps for the benefit of both flood affected and non-affected students. But now we are not being allowed to function properly in good weather too,” he lamented.
The front said that if any complaint is received against a school then action should be taken according to the rules of Education Department. “The Government has formulated remedial measures of proper inspection, imposition of fines and other penalty by Directorate of Education but raids by police or even district administration is not mentioned in those rules,” said Var.
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