Government Plans To Reopen Defunct Schools And 50,000 Closed Temples In Kashmir Valley

Union Minister G Kishan Reddy said that the central government plans to reopen 50,000 closed temples in Kashmir. The decision to survey abandoned and desecrated temples, defunct schools in the Valley comes after the state of Jammu and Kashmir was stripped of its separate status following the abrogation of Article 370. The Union Minister G Kishan Reddy on Monday declared that a committee has been set up by the government to survey the number of closed schools in the Kashmir valley which will be reopened. Reddy also stated that around 50,000 temples in the Kashmir Valley have closed down over the years. Of these, some were destroyed while the idols in some temples were defiled. The government has ordered a survey of such temples, he said.