Srinagar, June 19, 2022 (PPI-OT):In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, thousands of students are at risk on closing of schools affiliated with a registered, Falah-e-Aam Trust. Huzaif Ahmad, a 14-year-old class 9th student in Budgam district, who dreams to become an engineer, is now staring at an uncertain future.

He is among some 600 students and teachers at a secondary school in Budgam who are worried whether their school will be closed because of its past affiliation with a Falah-e-Aam Trust that has come under a new crackdown by the Hindutva RSS-BJP regime in IIOJK.

Like many other schools, the management said that the school was dissociated from the Falah-e-Aam Trust, re-registered and taken over by local community management in 2017. But reports said that the secondary school was among 20 schools in the Budgam district that might face closure.

The Modi-led fascist Indian regime has asked education department officials to close the schools within next 15 days. The decision has been taken because these schools have link with a biggest socio-religion and political organization, Jamaat-e-Islami, IIOJK.

The secondary school in Budgam provides a boarding facility to 400 students, most of them are from poor families. Those who can afford to pay are charged a monthly fee of just Rs 2,500 for tuition and boarding, said a management official to media in Srinagar.

“We are following the syllabus devised and approved by the state board of school education. Up to class 5th, we are teaching Cambridge series which is very modern and connected to the modern era,” Saleem Siddique, a schoolteacher, told the media. The government’s chief education officers of all districts have been asked to close these schools within 15 days and shift the students to government-run schools.

The Falah-e-Aam Trust said that only seven schools are directly affiliated with it and denied allegations of its involvement in any subversive or any other illegal activities. “We don’t know why we were banned. We only follow a government-approved syllabus and adhere to instructions from the government,” said Showkat Ahmad Var, Director, Falah-e-Aam Trust. Several APHC and other political leaders and parties have condemned such brutal order of the Modi regime.

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