{"id":45,"date":"2014-04-09T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T15:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kashmir-today.net\/students-made-to-labor-at-pulwama-school\/"},"modified":"2014-04-09T15:43:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T15:43:00","slug":"students-made-to-labor-at-pulwama-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"Students made to labor at Pulwama School"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><b>Pulwama:<\/b>&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">In one of the government run schools in a Pulwama village of South Kashmir, the administration forces students to labour instead of teaching them.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">The Government Boys and Girls Higher Secondary School Rohomo in the southern district is undergoing some construction work and students \u2013 who come to school to study \u2013 are made to work during their study hours.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">The Higher Secondary \u2013 established eight years ago \u2013 is in total mess. The principal of the School Shabir Ahmad Gilkar, says he is unaware about students being forced to labour. \u201cI don\u2019t know any such thing but I will investigate,\u201d he told GNS.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Gilkar is handicapped and he often comes to the school in the afternoon at his own will, locals said.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">A student told GNS that they were ordered by teachers to work. \u201cWhen we argued by saying that this is not our work but of laborers, they didn\u2019t pay any heed and ordered us to work,\u201d a student said.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">The construction work in the School is going on since last month.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">The teachers in the school haven\u2019t been transferred from four to five years, a local said.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">The Sarpanch of Rohoma, Ali Muhammad Dar leveled serious allegations on the teaching staff of the school. \u201cI was told by students that these lecturers click photos of girl students during morning prayers,\u201d he alleged.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">He said teachers also use cell phones during classes.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">The Zonal Education Officer, Atta Muhammad Khan, told GNS: \u201cThis is worst Higher Secondary. They (School administration) are running school at their own will.\u201d<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">He appealed: \u201cplease help us in getting things better.\u201d<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">The Chief Education Officer, Farooq Ahmad, Pulwama, told GNS that he will investigate the matter. \u201cWhosoever be found guilty, he will be punished,\u201d he said.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">The Director School of Education Kashmir, Tariq Ali Mir assured action against the guilty. He told GNS:&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cI will obtain report from the concerned Chief Educational Officer in this regard. We will take action against the guilty.\u201d (GNS)<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pulwama:&nbsp;In one of the government run schools in a Pulwama village of South Kashmir, the administration forces students to labour instead of teaching them. The Government Boys and Girls Higher Secondary School Rohomo in the southern district is undergoing some construction work and students \u2013 who come to school to study \u2013 are made to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}