Kashmir’s oldest missionary school flouts court order; charges fee, to conduct exam

Kashmir’s first missionary school Tyndale Biscoe School is violating the court orders and the guidelines the state government as authorities are not only demanding fee from the students for September and October but has also directed class 10th students to appear for pre-board examination on Friday.

In wake of the recent unprecedented floods, the J&K High Court recently had directed management of all the education institutes not to charge tuition fee as well as bus fare from students for the month of September and October. However, flouting the order, the school management is busy extracting fee from the students for the month of September and October, a news agency reports.

“I cleared the fee of my ward for the month of September and October as the school management has warned us that they will not allow students to sit in the examination until they don’t pay their fee of these two months,” father of a class 10th student Muhammad Ahtisham said.

Another parent said this school follow its own rules, as according to him, the school management has access to corridors of power and easily violate all the rules and guidelines that comes from the top.

Reports said that almost all the students studying in the school have paid their pay as according to the students they were forced to do so.

“Leave aside the question of  grabbing fee from the flood hit people, the school management has acted in an autocratic manner and has directed the class 10th class to appear in the pre-board examination on Friday November 7. “I fail to understand what my child is going to write in the examination as he has lost all the books and notes in floods. We shifted to Lal Bazar from Raj Bagh after floods devastated our house,” Muhammad Maqbool, father of another student, said.

The students and parents who had clicked the pictures and showed the pathetic condition of the classrooms and buildings of the school which remained submerged in water for 22 days said that there is lot of dirt present in the school and it is not hygienic for the students. Even the J&K government admitted before the High Court that schools re-opened in flood-hit areas of Kashmir are “hygienically unfit to function”. “When it is so then how come school management is forcing students to appear in the pre-board examination,” they said adding that on the performance of the pre-board examination, students are entitled for the admissions in class 11th.

The parents and students demanded the immediate cancellation of the pre-board examination and sought court intervention to stop school management for taking fee from the students.

Despite repeated efforts, no official from the school, founded in 1880, was ready to comment on the issue.

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