The Plight of Private School Teachers in Kashmir
Educating Society, Struggling to Survive By Waqar Ahmad Ganie Kashmir’s education sector presents a painful contradiction that deserves serious public attention. A person working as an unskilled daily-wage labourer may earn approximately ₹700 to ₹1,000 a day, while a qualified private-school teacher often struggles to earn even ₹200 to ₹400 per day. This comparison is…
Why many public officials have fear of headlines?
An honest officer should never fear an uncomfortable question, and an honest journalist should never need the threat of an uncomfortable headline to seek an answer. Dr. Fiaz Maqbool Fazili There is a question that has long intrigued me: Why do so many chief executives, senior officers and public officials seem uneasy, sometimes even fearful,…
‘Concerned Citizens’ seek LG’s intervention to raise upper age limit for J&K Bank recruitment to 40 years
STC NEWS DESKSRINAGAR, NOVEMBER 10 (STC): The Group of Concerned Citizens (GCC), Jammu and Kashmir, has urged Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha to intervene and seek a revision of the upper age limit prescribed by Jammu and Kashmir Bank for recruitment to 1,356 posts of Banking Associates and Probationary Officers.The Group has sought raising the upper…
Dr. Farooq asks legislators to nominate three ministerial preferences for proposed advisory groups
STC NEWS DESKSRINAGAR, NOVEMBER 10 (STC): Jammu and Kashmir National Conference president Dr Farooq Abdullah has proposed the formation of informal advisory groups of party legislators to be attached to each member of the Council of Ministers, to strengthen coordination between the party and the government.In a communication addressed to party legislators, Dr Farooq said…
BY THE WAY: One Landscape, Many Voices
How Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh Are Rebuilding a Shared Sense of Belonging. Dr Noour Ali Zehgeer Jammu and Kashmir was a state comprising of three important stakeholders (Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh). Even as it stands divided into two parts (Union Territories of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh), the debate refuses to die about who is…
