Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 20: Tracing the nostalgic journey of Hindu Education Society Kashmir (HESK) since 1943, senior BJP leader, Moti Kaul informed that the Society had a big role to play in developing and strengthening the educational infrastructure in the Valley.
Kaul, who has been elected president of HESK said this during a felicitation function of the newly elected Executive Body of HESK, which was attended by a large number of prominent community members, who expressed their collective feelings of joy and happiness on the composition of the Executive Body, having an unblemished tract record.
He said that some philanthropic Kashmiri Pandits at that time had established the Society to cater to the Higher Educational needs of the entire Kashmir valley, which had meagre higher educational opportunities at that time.
The speakers on the occasion informed that the Society established Hindu College, later rechristened as Gandhi Memorial College Srinagar in 1943, with a secular approach in imparting higher education, especially to the deprived sections of the Kashmiri Society.
The speakers unambiguously expressed their confidence in the leadership of Kaul, whose dynamism, integrity and contribution to community causes is well established.
Prof Satesh Bhan General Secretary of the new Executive Body said that Gandhi Memorial College Srinagar is the 2nd oldest College in the Valley.
Renowned educationist present on the occasion recalled the struggle they had to make in the aftermath of the forced exile, for re-establishing another educational institution namely Gandhi Memorial College of Education Jammu under the leadership of Late General BN Dhar PVSM.
The outgoing president, BL Razdan, Ex-Chief Income Tax Commissioner in his parting remarks expressed his confidence that the legacy of the Society was being handed over to Kaul, who has a dedicated social outreach and a person widely acclaimed and accepted by the whole Pandit Community.
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