Prime Minsiter Narindra Modi has finally broken his silence over the continued attacks on Kashmiris in different States especially on the students and this has resulted in thousands of students coming back to Kashmir leaving their education half-way. This is too little and too late as the right wing forces got more than a week to thrash Kashmiris and send them back. The hatred against Kashmiris has increased in every State and the threat perception for the Kashmiris has multipled after the Pulwama CRPF Convoy attack.
Thousands of Kashmiri students are facing a huge challenge of how to continue their education. Most of them are so scared that they don’t want to go back. If the calm prevails henceforth for some time and they go back to the professional colleges what about their future if again some attack takes place in Kashmir and they would be targeted again. In present circumstances, people of Jammu and Kashmir especially the Civil Society will have to think of future and try to set up professional colleges in Kashmir so that money is saved and the lives of the students are also saved for future.
Coaching Centres’ Association of Kashmir (CCAK) and Private Schools’ Association of Jammu and Kashmir (PSAJK) said in a press conference that local political parties and leaders too should limit their words and actions to facilitate the progress and development of education sectors and not do politics on education. Political leaders who are currently raising a hue and cry over the expulsion of Kashmiri students, paid heed to the development of educational infrastructure in Kashmir, this situation would have been largely avoided. These leaders were in power they never encouraged the emergence of colleges and universities of excellence in the private sector and the result is that Kashmir is an educationally backward region. Every State encouraged the establishment of private college and universities except ours. Even today more than 100 files for the establishment of colleges are pending for want of clearance.