Srinagar, Feb 12 (KNO): The government has claimed that prior to 2019, schools in Jammu and Kashmir were witnessing a deficit of average number of working academic days due to ‘unrest’ here.
However, it said that in the past five years, the academic days in schools of Jammu and Kashmir have increased by over 30 percent.
The official documents accessed by the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) read, “Prior to 2019, due to unrest, the average number of working days for which Schools remain functional was 128-150.”
“After 2019, the schools remain functional for more than 210 days, which has improved the school education system to a large extent,” it reads.
An official said that the administration delivered more than 220 academic days in 2023.
He said, “During this year, we have not closed any educational institute any time except for those days of summer and winter vacations.”
“However, only during the early onset of winter we made some decision that was announced beforehand of the scheduled time that includes early winter vacations,” the official said.
It also said, “We have attended more than the number of academic days mandated by NCERT, and other concerned authorities even in higher education departments, we have not closed the education institutes unnecessary.”—(KNO)