Shabir Khan
As Educational Institutes remain closed in Jammu Kashmir, amid the nationwide lockdown due to the Corona pandemic,a teacher namely Manzoor Ahmed in Kupwara district of Kashmir is teaching hundreds of children in the Daroh Valley.
He is voluntarily teaching his students openly, following physical distancing rules, Apart from this, the first female Wushu champion of Kashmir, Jabena Akhtar, is also training local children.
Pertinenly schools in Kashmir have been shut since the abrogatgion of Article 370 in August last year and opened for not more than five days in March, making children suffer.
Manzoor Ahmad Dar, who lives in Charkote in the Lolab Valley, is teaching children from the Gujjar community. Sepaking to The Kashiriyat a local resident said, “The people of the region respect and admire him for this initiative.”
Apart from this, Jabena Akhtar, who is the first female Wushu Champion in Kashmir, is training local children. Jabena, a resident of Kazipora village in Tangmarg district of Baramulla, is training wushu for about 600 girls in the district.
Pertinently, Jabena the bronze medalist at the Wushu International Championships held in Armenia 2017, is the first Kashmiri women champion in this form of martial arts.
She is also the brand ambassador of ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ campaign of the Government of India. Jabena began playing Wushu in 2007.