Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 28: In a brazen assault on the future of underprivileged children of J&K, the ruling National Conference (NC) Government is executing a diabolical policy to dismantle the public education sector brick by brick, paving the way for unchecked privatization that benefits only the elite.
“This agenda has already inflicted irreversible damage on primary and middle school education, particularly in the remote and forgotten districts of Poonch, Rajouri, and Reasi, where schools languish in chronic understaffing-a scourge that has festered for decades under the guise of so-called attachment policy,” BSP president for JKUT Darshan Rana said here today.
Rana said BSP condemns this deliberate sabotage in the strongest possible terms. What was once a beacon of hope for the marginalized-primary and middle schools meant to uplift the poor and middle-class students, has been reduced to hollow shells of neglect. In far-flung areas like Poonch, Rajouri, and Reasi, classrooms echo with the ghosts of absent teachers, curriculum lies in tatters, and quality education remains a distant mirage for our most vulnerable children.
The `attachment policy’-a euphemism for the arbitrary diversion of teachers to administrative whims and political errands, has accelerated this downward spiral, stripping schools of essential manpower and dooming generations to illiteracy and despair. Schools that should be engines of empowerment are now breeding grounds for dropouts and disillusionment, betraying the Constitutional Right to Education enshrined for every child in J&K UT, he added.
BSP president said the NC Government’s hypocrisy knows no bounds. They parade as champions of the people while wielding the attachment policy like a wrecking ball against public education. This is not governance; it is genocide of opportunities for the Bahujan Samaj and the poor.
Rana urged the Lt Governor’s administration to intervene decisively, stop the attachment policy and prioritize recruitment drives to fill every vacant post in the schools.
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