SRINAGAR: Minister for Education Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari on Wednesday emphasised for requisite parental control so that the children in Kashmir do not get astray from their academic ambitions.
The Minister was on a day long tour of Batmaloo constituency where he inaugurated the newly constructed building for Government High School at Malroo.
Bukhari visited various schools in the constituency where he took stock of infrastructural needs besides requirement of teaching and ministerial staff.
Speaking on the occasion, the Minister for Education expressed his displeasure over the incidents of stone pelting and road-side agitations involving students of high and higher secondary schools.
“The students should have been busy and involved in academic and co curricular activities rather being chased by law enforcing agencies on the roads. This is really a displeasing situation which needs to be addressed through coordinated efforts of both teachers and parents,” Bukhari remarked.
Bukhari appealed students to return to their classes and not to waste their precious time on roads. “I fail to understand on whom they are pelting stones? Perhaps we live in one society and it is beyond once comprehension as who is pelting stones on whom?” he asked.
The Education Minister informed that the Government was prompt in its action against trespassing in Pulwama Degree College. “We ordered a time bound enquiry and completed it in 8 days. The government transferred SSP, SHO and one DySP was also shunted. Now what are other students demanding,” he said.
The Minister said that students have every right to express their aspirations and can protest as well but within the confines of their campuses.
“No one will touch them if they don’t come out of their institutes. I have no problem unless they come cross the premises of their institutions. Once they come on roads it becomes a law and order situation. This warrants law enforcement agencies to perform their duties,” he said.
Bukhari said that some outsiders try to exploit gullible students and try to create law and order problems under the garb of student protests.
“We have lost precious academic time last year. It hurts me as a father to see children not attending to their classes. I once again appeal them to go back to their schools and colleges and focus on their studies,” the Minister pleaded.
Bukhari reiterated his commitment to resolve the issues of students and the staff in schools. He appealed the students to approach him if they have any issues. “I am available any time to any student. I appeal them to approach me in person, on phone or through my email. We will try to address all issues jointly. How can we confront with our own children with the use of force when the matter of the fact is that we love them,” he said.
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