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| Pvt schools function normally on Mela Kheer Bhawani holiday | | Kashmir admin ignores KPs sentiments! | | Early Times Report
srinagar, June 10: Even as the day of Mela Kheer Bhawani is supposed to be a government holiday, the private schools were functioning normally on the day of the revered festival of Kashmir Pandits.
People said "most of the prominent private schools in Kashmir province were functioning normally as if they were not supposed to be any respect for law or for the sentiments of the Pandits community."
"While on way to Tulmulla, I was shocked to see school buses plying normally. I asked someone if it was not a holiday and the reply was that such holidays which are to be celebrated by the Pandits are not observed anymore," said a Kashmiri Pandit who had gone to his homeland from Jammu to pay obeisance at the temple.
Officials in the Education Department said they allow private schools to function on such days as not many Pandits live in Kashmir anymore.
"There is hardly a presence of Pandit students or teachers in private schools so why to waste a day of schooling. Not all private schools were functional only a few were," said one official in the Education Department on the condition of anonymity.
Ramesh Kumar a Pandith said he was so hurt at the response of the government towards such holidays of the minority community that he would file a complaint in New Delhi.
"Is Kashmir not a secular place that festivals of the minority community should be acknowledged? Or is that Kashmir Pandits are forgotten entity," said one academic working in Jammu University.
It is pertinent to mention that the Directorate of School Education is duty bound to keep check on such developments.
When contacted one official said the matter would be looked into if a complaint comes to their notice. "Nobody has come forward with any formal complaint, if a complaint comes to our notice the matter will be looked into," the official said. |
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