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| Life limping back to normal in Kashmir | | Schools remain open on Sunday | | Mustansir
Srinagar, Mar 17: Normal life resumed in Kashmir Sunday after the curfew was lifted after four consecutive days. What was interesting to note that most of the private schools remained opened, despite it being a Sunday, to compensate the losses of academic time due to curfews and shutdowns.
Though curfew was relaxed in most of the parts on Saturday, restrictions, however, continued in six police stations as a precautionary measure in the wake of killing of a youth in Zoonimar area of the city by CRPF persons on Tuesday.
"Curfew has been lifted from all the remaining areas of the city," a police spokesman said.
Shops and business establishments remained open while public transport plied normally on all routes, official sources said.
Sunday market in civil lines witnessed huge rush today after many weeks of disturbance and thousands of people including men, women and children were busy in making shopping.
In an attempt to compensate the loss of schooling days some private schools in Kashmir remained open on Sunday adding further to the hustle and bustle in Srinagar streets.
Among the leading schools which opened today for classes were the several branches of Delhi Public School in Srinagar, Budgam, Baramulla and Anantnag districts of the valley.
The move comes in response to frequent strikes called by the separatists and curfew imposed by the government in the past two weeks.
Hundreds of School buses plying on the roads in Srinagar and its peripheries made it convenient for thousands of students to attend their schools on Sunday. Parents have expressed their satisfaction over the decision of the management of private institutions and have appealed the government as well as the separatists to ensure that education institutes are not affected by the stir.
"Education should be conflict neutral. Both the sides should think of a way out to enable the learning process to continue," Parveen Bashir whose son was one of the students attending school today, said.
Rafiq Ahmad another parent said the students of Kashmir had suffered during the 2010 summer agitation and it should not be repeated this year.
While authorities had imposed curfew on nine days in March due to various reasons, separatists, who are demanding return of mortal remains of Parliament attack convict Mohammad Afzal Guru, have called for strike on three days during the same period.
Meanwhile Inspector General of Police, Kashmir Zone, chaired a meeting at Police Control Room Srinagar and reviewed functioning of different sections.
The Inspector General of Police, Kashmir Zone Abdul Ghani Mir, after taking over the charge, chaired a meeting at police Control Room Srinagar and reviewed the functioning of the different sections of the Police Control Room. The IGP while reviewing the meeting, exhorted upon the officers that the Control Room has to remain alive to any situation round the clock. He directed officers heading different sections of the Control Room to bring innovation and quickness in the work so that we could serve the department and people much better. The officers gave resume of the working of their respective sections. The IGP underlined a number of measures for strengthening the system at the Control Room.
The meeting was attended, among others by Deputy Inspector General of Police, Central Kashmir Range, Shri S.A Mujtaba, SSP PCR, Shri. Sheikh Mahmood, SSP Srinagar, Shri. S.A.H Bukhari and DYSsP of Control Room, Kashmir. Earlier, the IGP inspected different sections of the Zonal Police Headquarters, after resuming the charge.
Abdul Ghani Mir took over charge as Inspector General of Police Kashmir zone on Saturday.
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