Srinagar: Stating that government decision on holding board exams for class 10 and 12 has “exposed the plot to politicize education”, the Kashmir Economic Alliance (KEA) Chairman Haji Muhammad Yasin Khan on Saturday said Peoples Democratic Party led coalition is “ruining” the career of Kashmiri students through two exams.
He said as if the ongoing killings and other atrocities were not enough, the government is now “killing the future of Kashmiri children in the garb of exams.”
“If exams are to be held in March again then why exams this time?” he asked.
“This is being done only out of ego and those who appear in exams this time will enjoy benefits of having upheld Govt ego whereas its quite obvious that those who wait till March will bear the brunt.”
“The mood swings of the government have simply exposed that PDP led coalition is holding exams in November only to give a rosy picture of the worst-ever humanitarian crises in Kashmir through conduction of so called exams which will exploit the future prospects of our children,” Khan said.
He said students of class 10 and 12th have to appear in exams which will decide their prospects of future education in various streams like medicine, engineering, law, commerce, human sciences and arts.
“A marginal change in percentage achieved can leave their career ruined. Moreover the point is that when the situation is just not viable for exams why to enforce it?” he said.
He appealed people to rise to the occasion and say no to dual exams as it is the future of Kashmiri students, which is at stake.
Khan asked the civil society in Kashmir and elsewhere New Delhi to play its role in getting the untimely exams postponed so that the future of Kashmiri students is saved.
Meanwhile, Khan also condemned the use of force on mourners who were carrying body of teenager in Eidgah locality.