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Education

This section is a window to the education scenario of Jammu and Kashmir. It gives details about the policies, issues, initiatives and inspirational stories related to education.

Reading, Heart!

Disturbed by what patients in Kashmir have to face in wake of ineffective and slow healthcare, Sagheer Wani, a young qualified engineer and a...

Model in Mountains

At seven his father became part of Kashmir’s surging collateral damage and at 14 he was formally admitted to an orphanage. Nine years later,...

Mission Commercialised

Running from government leased land, ‘charitable mission’ schools in Srinagar charge huge amount from students in the name of education. Syed Asma reports the...

Who Is Killing Them?

One of the foremost features of Kashmir’s strife is that tens of thousands of people, men, women and youth, started moving out of their...

A Silent Takeover

J&K’s school education bill is going through the roof: Rs 2940 crore in 2012-13 to Rs 3238 crore next fiscal. For 12 classes, there...

The Scholarship story

A year after the 2010 summer unrest, New Delhi announced a Special Scholarship Scheme to encourage students from J&K to pursue higher education. Two...

Playing With Future

A complete lack of infrastructure and official apathy has forced two schools in north Kashmir to transform commercial shops into classrooms. While the students...

A diligent teacher

In a state where people invent excuses to take a day off from work, a government teacher in a south Kashmir village has employed...

An Evolving Trust

Away from public gaze, a chain of schools across J&K has built massive infrastructure with community participation to educate more than 100000 boys and...

Belling The Cat

The state government has set up a monitoring committee to evaluate the infrastructure of private coaching centers and accordingly revise their registration annually. While...
Shaima Qureshi

Shining Shaima

Shaima Qureshi was one of the recipients of JK Young Scientist Award conferred upon ten scientists from Kashmir valley at the recently concluded Science...

Children of Lesser God

Giving birth to a defective child invites social stigma. Sadly, both parents and their child become victims of a villainous society. If we can’t...

‘Celebrating’ August 15

There is a sense of pride and jubilation among most participants of August 15 celebrations which are held at Bakshi Stadium. However, many school...

The Shrine Contribution

A small shrine nested in Kashmir’s Pir Panchal Mountains in Shahadra Sharief funded a huge university in Rajouri’s backyard. The Ghulam Shah Badshah University...

Turning A Blind Eye

Students who have hearing and visual impairments are increasingly finding it difficult to receive proper education. Syed Asma  takes a closer look at the...