Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Nov 3: Kash-mir Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) today urged the State Government not to make examinations ‘point of prestige’ and defer them until March 2017.
In a statement issued here, the KCCI said: “The Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industry is deeply pained by un-necessary controversy being created about the education of our children. There can be no two opinions about the fact that the education of children is at the core of our heart. But unfortunately, due to the present unrest the education of our children has suffered for no fault of theirs thereby putting their future in jeopardy.”
“These are basic requirements for conducting the examination. Also, the long period of continued uprising has not been conducive for student community to concentrate on their studies even privately. Moreover, the children have been traumatized by the current cycle of violence with a large number of them injured or detained,” the KCCI said, adding that under such circumstances forcing them to appear in exams is detrimental to them.
“We appeal to the Government not to make it as a prestigious issue but to take a realistic approach towards the problem. We appeal to the Government to reschedule the exams till the month of March-2017, release all the detained students immediately, enable time to injured students to recuperate. This will provide a fair opportunity to all to study and appear in re-scheduled exams in March as had been happening in Kashmir sine ages. Politics apart let there be no politics and scoring of points as for as the education and future of our children is concerned,” the KCCI added.
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