All Dressed Up, None To Be Taught At Jammu And Kashmir Schools

The Jammu and Kashmir administration’s initiative to get children back to their classes flopped on Monday with most pupils staying away.

The authorities, desperately projecting an “all is well” narrative since the August 5 lockdown, have now flunked their first major test: reopening primary schools after a fortnight.

The Telegraph visited over half-a-dozen schools in Srinagar’s civil lines and old city localities, and found that not a single child had turned up. Not one was seen heading to school.

Some schools had not even opened; those that did mostly witnessed a handful of staff members turning up.

At Raj Bagh, photographers chased a man who seemed to be taking his son to school although the boy was not in uniform. The father clarified they were headed home, not to school, and pleaded that pictures not be snapped.

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