SRINAGAR: In a vibrant ceremony held at the Govt Degree College Auditorium in Poonch, the Private Schools' Association Jammu and Kashmir (PSAJK) celebrated the achievements of the top 30 students in the class 12 examinations.
Contagion Keeping Students, Parents, Teachers On Tenterhooks Syed Samreen
SRINAGAR: After staying on-line with vintage internet speed, students of classes 9 to 12 resumed physical mode of education on March 1. This time the resumption came with new norms, dictated by the invisible virus – masks, sanitisers, physical distancing.
Entry to schools is subject to a welcome temperature check. KL Image by Bilal Bahadur
The school re-opening is a first after August 5 2019, with a brief opening in February 2020, and a quick closure in wake of the pandemic dictated lock-down. The schools were shut on March 9, more than a week before the first positive case was detected in Srinagar, on March 18. As the cases surged across the country, the detection was followed by a nationwide pandemic lockdown on March 25. The lockdown compelled education to go virtual.
SRINAGAR: On the Phase-II of the Mission
Wushnaer, a serpentine queue of unprivileged people waited in the lawns of Lal Bazar’s Bilaliya Education Institute on Sunday, on the eve of the start of
Chila-ie-Kalan, the harshest 40 days of Kashmir winter.
Wushnaer is a Kashmiri word meaning warmth and various like-minded individuals and institutions have joined hands to set up Mission
Wushnaer.
Mission Wushnaer is a collective effort of various individuals and groups to help families stay warm in winter by offering them some basic items
As the harsh winters are forcing people to add layers of clothes and ensure winter necessities at home, many unprivileged within and outside Srinagar, are grappling with the cold and poverty. In order to give them some support in fighting the harsh winters, Kashmir Welfare Trust (KWT) in association with Food for Poor, Food for All Group and Moral Education, Environmental and Relief Council (MEERC) of Private School’s Association Jammu and