{"id":5351,"date":"2016-10-01T19:55:42","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T14:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir.today\/?p=5351"},"modified":"2016-10-01T19:55:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T14:25:42","slug":"students-continue-anti-exam-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=5351","title":{"rendered":"Students continue \u2018anti-exam\u2019 protests"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dilution of standards is no solution: Edu Min Naeem Akhtar<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Srinagar:<\/strong> <\/em>Protests by students continued on Saturday across the Kashmir, demanding justice to those students who were maimed and blinded in forces action.
\nIn Sopore, hundreds of students took out a protest march. They assembled in the main town near the Boys Higher Secondary School and marched towards down town and Jamia Masjid to protest against the government\u2019s decision to hold exams in November this year.
\n\u201cReady to sacrifice our future for Kashmir Freedom, Say no to exams, save children first, Stop the innocent civilian killing in Kashmir,\u201d read placards they were holding.
\nHundreds of students also assembled in Reban Rafiabad to protest, vowing for exam boycott. \u201cHow it is possible for us to appear in exam when hundreds of student are injured, undergoing treatment in various hospitals,\u201d they said.
\nThey accused the state education ministry acting \u201cas blind to the situation\u201d and asked it to bring back the eye sight of those students first who are unable to read and write now.
\nScores of students from different private and government schools assembled at Press Enclave, holding placards and banners. They played the photographs of those students who were maimed or blinded in forces action.
\n\u201cWe will not sit in exams without Insha and Yasir. We will not appear in tests without our friends who have been rendered blind by the government forces,\u201d they said.
\nAnother group of female students also held a separate protest at Press Enclave. They were holding banners, reading \u201cExam boycott till K-issue is resolved, wake up world against the Indian atrocities against unarmed Kashmiris.\u201d
\nThey slammed education minister for closing his eyes on the \u201cbrutalities on civilians by men in uniform\u201d.
\n\u201cHow come it justified to ask students write their examination when the same government blinded over hundred people mostly students,\u201d they said.
\nReports of protests by students were also received from Bhagat and Parray Pora, Safa Kadal, Rambagh and others localities.
\n\u201cStop doing politics on exam, exam boycott, Justice for Insha,\u201d read the placards. \u201cWe are ready to sacrifice future for the sake of freedom.\u201d
\nAt some places, police used light force to disperse the protesting students.
\nReports of protests by students were also received from Kupwara, Baramulla, Bandipora, Sopore and other places.
\nMeanwhile, Minister for Education, Naeem Akhtar told KNS that the dilution of standards is no solution. \u201cWe might raise our standards to be able to compete and survive in this world where the only credential is merit,\u201d he said. (KNS)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dilution of standards is no solution: Edu Min Naeem Akhtar Srinagar: Protests by students continued on Saturday across the Kashmir, demanding justice to those students who were maimed and blinded in forces action. In Sopore, hundreds of students took out a protest march. They assembled in the main town near the Boys Higher Secondary School […]<\/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-5351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5351","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=5351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}