Srinagar: All Jammu and Kashmir Students Union (AJKSU) in a statement to media expressed dismay over the government’s decision to conduct final exams of 10th and 12th classes in next month. AJKSU President Syed Tajamul in a statement said the student examinations are not like state or parliamentary elections to which government will expect the normalization in political situation.
“At a time when there is political uncertainty in the Valley from the last 90 days, when Schools and Colleges remain totally closed and students were not able to attend the tuitions due to imposition of Curfew restrictions and strike calls, how could have students prepared themselves for the examinations,” the statement reads.
Tajamul said Govt should aware that examinations are directly linked with the bright future of students and as such students are neither mentally nor the situation presently allow them to sit in examinations, adding, the examinations are not like state or parliamentary elections to which government will expect the normalization in political situation.
Slamming a section of schools authorities who just uploaded syllabus on their school websites to act as they are fulfilling their responsibility, Tajamul said that it is unfortunate students are being asked by the school administration to download the content from website at a time when there is no possible internet facility to the students.
Tajamul said students are not only prepared academically, several students in nook and corner of the Valley are reportedly injured during the present turmoil in Kashmir. He said to go for examinations it will be compromise of the security of the students and in such case no parent will allow to their wards to go for examinations.
He appealed the government to go through the facts and read the writing on wall and see how students are protesting everywhere against the government’s decision to conduct the examinations. Tajamul hoped that government will look the matter seriously and will announce the postponement of annual examinations 2016.
Examinations are not elections to which government is expecting normalcy: AJKSU
