UT Government was constrained to order shutting down of as many as 300 such educational institutions across Jammu and Kashmir which were run indirectly or by an offshoot of Jamat -e- Islami known as Falah-e-Aam Trust (FAT).
The Trust , is not only suspected of but is based on credible information it to be indulging in providing indirect but solid support so far as the ”literary ” logistics are concerned to secessionists and fundamentalists groups operating in Kashmir valley by polluting the minds of the young students. Why should and for what reasons be there foreign funding through a number of Bank accounts as the same came into limelight on account of investigation by the State Investigation Agency (SIA), the beneficiaries of which is proved to be the Jamaat-e-Islami and hence the FAT. Should Jihadi literature and indoctrination be the agenda behind running of such schools for which such foreign funding is received which thus is providing all oxygen and sustenance to the ”agenda”. Most of , if not all students rolled out of such institutions are, therefore, proving to be facilitators for various radical outfits.
In simple words, these schools are platforms of brainwashing innocent and gullible minds in adopting the ways which fitted into the larger aim and agenda of militant outfits albeit FAT.
There could be no worst example of betraying the natural and unscathed trust which in normal course these young scholars carry with them to be reposed in their teachers to train them as enlightened and adequately educated persons who must otherwise be under these teachers who must act as their sincere guardians and protectors in schools . Let us recall and reiterate the measure of anger against and subsequent ban imposed by the Late Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah in early 80s on Jamat-e-Islami (JeI) and not only issuing orders for outright closure of but dismantling of the madarassas run by the JeI across the Kashmir valley . Not only that, when Jamat-e-Islami resurfaced with a new name to continue with its agenda , the then Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Dr. Farooq Abdullah banned the Jamat in 1988 as it had surfaced beyond doubt that the Jammat had been found indulging in activities prejudicial to internal security and public order and having the potentiality of disrupting the unity and integrity of the country.
What to do with the huge assets in the form of a good measure of infrastructure which these shut downed schools are having , the UT Government must take a suitable decision about that as it has taken in respect of the students , nearly over 50000 who were enrolled in these schools so that their academic year was not wasted . There is a good number of Government schools equipped with all the reasonably required infrastructure where these students can be admitted and for future new admission of students which the banned schools were carrying out could be done by the Government run schools. As regards the fate of nearly four thousand staff members, mostly ”teachers” the UT Government must take some steps so that any injustice with the deserving teachers did not take place. However, proper and strict verification and looking into the antecedents of these teachers was the prerequisite. The manner and the procedure of closure of these schools having already been advised to district Education Officers and concerned authorities , no effort on any front related directly or indirectly to deep rooting anti India and secessionist agenda which helped in the sustenance of militancy , should be spared , if complete peace is to return to Jammu and Kashmir.
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