CCA asks MHRD to deem Valley’s winter session at par with summer session
SRINAGAR: Thousands of Kashmiri students are losing career opportunities due to Kashmir’s set pattern for exams towards end of the year, the Coaching Centers Association of Kashmir said in a statement on Tuesday. The CCA has expressed anguish over the cold shouldering of Kashmiri aspirants by the India’s ministry of human resource and development, which is actually the education ministry.
The MHRD has declared Kashmiri students ineligible for prestigious Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) due to J&K Boards winter session tradition.
The association demanded that the state government immediately take up the issue with central government to save the career of these students. Kashmir follows the winter session as against the summer session adopted by schools in other parts of India, said G N Var chairman CCA. Every student can appear in JEE twice immediately after their 10+2 exams. But when Kashmiris apply for their second attempt, MHRD declares them ineligible by recognizing it as their third attempt.
The association said that MHRD needs to know that Kashmirs November 2013 session is equal to New Delhis May 2014 session.
This faulty rejection is shattering the dreams of tens of thousands of students as it has become a routine every year, said Var. Infact this is one of the reasons that Kashmiri students are unable to crack JEE.
The association termed it as a dangerous trend as Kashmir is being devoid of high caliber professional engineers. Our students have done wonders in IAS, but here they are being discriminated due to a technical glitch, said Var. They are unable to crack into the top IITs and even if qualify JEE they end up in some small time colleges due to low rank and they cant appear again to improve their ranks.
The association asked the state government to look into the matter as soon as possible. Look at our NIT Hazratbal, where Kashmiri students are now a minority as they are unable to crack JEE, said Var. The state government should take up the matter with MHRD for inclusion of a clause wherein Kashmirs winter session is treated at par with Central board of School Educations summer session.
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