By NDChronicle.com correspondent,
The visit by all-party delegation seems to have a salutary impact in Jammu and Kashmir as after three long months of violence the educational institutions got opened on Monday.
Unlike most part of the country, the Kashmir Valley gets three months winter vacation––obviously due to snow-fall and bad weather condition––and summer months are full with activities. But this year over three months period were lost in the agitation which took 105 lives. Violence started in the Valley from June 11 and barring a few days in between schools and colleges almost remained closed.
According to state Education Minister Peerzada Syed, the government would ensure that children go to schools and schools remain open. “We appeal to the parents to send their children to schools. However, if there will be disturbances, responsibility would be fixed on the troublemakers and hooligans,” he added.
However, the leader of the hardline faction of the Hurriyat Conference, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, in a statement said that no right thinking person can deny the importance of education in society, but to think that the government “is concerned about the future of our children is like a mad man’s dream.”
Announcing a fresh calendar of strikes for the next ten days he asked the parents not to send their children to schools and colleges.
