Destroying institutions in a Kashmiri way?
inam ul rehman On January 08, 2020, I came across a news story in one of the fledgling English newspaper, Kashmir Reader , on the Global Educational Trust, Mumbai , run schools in Kashmir. The story ( “Mumbai based school closes 2 branches in Srinagar, career of hundreds of students in quandary”) was a case of lazy journalism in which the contending party’s view was not sort, or wilfully ignored. In the said story the reporter quoting the “parent association” writes that the GET closed two school branches at Iqra International School, Habak , and Bagh-i-Mehtab , adding that it “hiked fee”, increased the “prices of books by 40 percent”, the GET management wants to “layoff some staff members at the two branches”; “staff barred to enter the premises”, and the “salary of staff members is withheld for several months” The fact is that my kids are studying there from the past six years. I looked at the fee card which says that no fee was hiked for the past three years. Pl...