Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, May 3: Minister for Education, Naeem Akhtar today announced that Government is mulling to start two nursing colleges, one each in Srinagar and Jammu next year.
The Minister said this during “Iqbal Day” function organized by Government College for Women, M A Road.
The Minister said from next year Government will start nursing colleges in Government College for Women, M A Road, while another one would be opened in Government College for Women Gandhi Nagar in Jammu.
Referring to nursing profession as a noble profession, the Minister said that by 2020 there would be an acute shortage of nurses across the globe.
He added that while the concept of evening classes has already started in University of Kashmir, the Government is mulling to start the similar kind of classes in colleges also.
“These classes will benefit the students who fail to attend their classes during the day for various reasons. Besides, it will also recreate night life in Kashmir,” the Minister said.
He said that limiting legendary poet Sir Mohammad Iqbal to a particular community or to a particular religion is “ironical” as his poetry is an inspiration for the entire mankind.
Speaking about the love of Iqbal with his past, the Minister said by going through Iqbal’s poetry one could easily see how he was trying to connect himself with the glorious past of Kashmir as he was in love with his roots, and we are trying to create walls of hatred.
Mr. Akhtar referred Iqbal as the most modern Islamic thinker of his times and said that it was the great poet himself who gave the concept of “global competition.”
The Minister said that there was a time when world used to discuss the Islamic literature, Islamic culture, Islamic architecture, but now it is subsumed and is reduced to the condemned one word of “Islamic terrorism”.
Asking the girls to fight for their rights, the Minister said; “Unless and until you stand up to fight for your rights no one will help you. Society sometimes deliberately tries to suppress the girl and deprive her of her rights. ”
He said our youth need to reorient themselves, and should give up their reluctance to move out of Kashmir.
The function was also attended by Chairman, JKBOSE, Zahoor Ahmad Chat; Nodal Principal, Professor Mohammad Aslam Baba; Principal, Government College for Women, M.A. Road, Shaheen Altaf along with principals from other colleges, the college faculty, and students.
Earlier, the Minister also inaugurated the newly constructed “multipurpose hall” of the college.
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