Shabir Ali/ Aasim Bashir Bhat
Schools reopened in the Kashmir valley on Wednesday (March 2, 2022) after a gap of nearly a year from classes 6 to 12th.
School education has been massively hit after the abrogation of Article 370. Initially, the schools were shut for months due to the lockdown, which was followed by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Last year in 2021 March, students of classes 9 to 12 attended school. However, a month later on April 04, 2021 the schools were shut by the Jammu Kashmir administration due to surging cases of Covid-19.
The streets across Kashmir valley on Wednesday hummed with the early morning conversations of school-going kids. “Life seemed very disorderly, now everything seems to be getting normal. Their faces brighten up our days,” a shopper from Srinagar’s Nawa Kadal area said.
“It is amazing to go back to school- to be able to see and meet our friends and teachers. I feel we have pre-maturely got the sense of what leaving school means, unlike the children before us,” Syed Midhat, a class 9th student said.
The order to reopen all schools was issued by the J&K State Disaster Management Committee after reviewing the Covid situation in the region.
The administration has asked the schools to follow covid protocols.