SRINAGAR: Educational institutions remained closed for the past more than four months in the Kashmir valley, where students are attending their classes on Saturday and Sundays when there is full day relaxation in separatist strike.
However, Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education (BOSE) conducted 10th and 12th class annual examinations in the Kashmir valley, where government had ordered mass promotion from Ist to 9th and 11th classes. Interestingly the separatists had also not opposed holding of examinations but had demanded their postponement till March.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has lauded the students for their participation in the examinations and said Kashmiri youths opted for development.
However, separatists strongly reacted to Prime Ministers statement and said nobody was against the education of youths and it was prime concern of Kashmiri society.
Though private educational institutions had also announced mass promotion before the government order, but dozens of private schools are conducting examinations on Saturdays and Sundays where there is no strike.
Both the factions of the Hurriyat Conference (HC) and Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), spearheading the agitation since July 9, a day after Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) commander Burhan Wani and two other militants were killed in an encounter in Anantnag, have already extended the strike December Ist.
However, for the past two weeks students are attending their schools after separatists had announced full day relaxation on Saturday and Sundays.
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