{"id":4927,"date":"2016-09-24T23:47:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T18:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir.today\/?p=4927"},"modified":"2016-09-24T23:47:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T18:17:32","slug":"kashmiri-students-enrol-jammu-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=4927","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Kashmiri Students Enrol In Jammu Schools\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sheikh Zaffar Iqbal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The NDTV<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The last time 17-year-old Suraya Gulzar was in a classroom was three months ago. Suraya had to stop going to school in South Kashmir\u2019s Islamabad since clashes broke out in the Valley following the killing of popular militant commander Burhan Wani.<\/p>\n<p>The fear of irreparable harm to her education has \u201cforced\u201d her to migrate to Jammu to take admission in a government school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe time lost by the students can\u2019t be made up. Students are suffering the most. There are no arrangements. My exams were going on, but now they have also got postponed, I don\u2019t know when I will be able to sit for the exams again. That\u2019s why I have come here,\u201d said Suraya.<\/p>\n<p>Suraya is not alone. In the last three months, hundreds of students have moved out of the Valley to Jammu and to other places in the country.<\/p>\n<p>For the last three months, educational institutes in the Valley are shut. The state government\u2019s efforts to open schools have not succeeded.<\/p>\n<p>At a government higher secondary school at Sunjawan in Jammu, 30 Kashmiri students have taken admission. Special classes are now being organised for the students who have taken admission mid semester.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the last two weeks, we have been getting a lot of phone calls. People want to check whether children can get admission here. Education and security are their two major concerns,\u201d said Prem Singh, Principal of the government higher secondary school in Sunjwan.<\/p>\n<p>While those can are finding alternatives, for scores more, for financial or other reasons, schools remain out of reach. For them, uncertainty looms large on not just their studies but more.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>(The news story first appeared in the NDTV.com)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheikh Zaffar Iqbal The NDTV The last time 17-year-old Suraya Gulzar was in a classroom was three months ago. Suraya had to stop going to school in South Kashmir\u2019s Islamabad since clashes broke out in the Valley following the killing of popular militant commander Burhan Wani. The fear of irreparable harm to her education has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927","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=4927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}