#EducationEquity Archives

Divisional Reservation for Kashmiri Students: A Crucial Step to Safeguard Educational and Employment Equity

June 30, 2025 Editor

Why Divisional Reservation is Essential for Kashmiri Students in Jobs and Admissions By: Javid Amin | Srinagar | 30 June 2025 A Growing Crisis of Representation In the heart of Jammu & Kashmir, a silent but severe crisis is unfolding. Kashmiri students—once fairly represented in academic admissions and government recruitment—are now seeing their dreams eroded by a reservation system that increasingly marginalizes their presence. With excessive and poorly balanced quotas, lists after lists of job appointments and professional course admissions show a disturbing drop in Kashmiri representation. For instance, in…

JKBOSE Orders Transfer of Students from 60 Private Schools to Govt Institutions

January 3, 2024 Editor

In response to the expiration of affiliations for Private Academic Institutions in the Kashmir Division, coupled with their failure to submit extension case files, the Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education has given a nod to enroll secondary and senior secondary level students of sixty private schools to nearby government institutions. JKBOSE Deputy Secretary General for Kashmir division said that the directives have been issued for tagging of on-roll students of sixty private academic institutions of Kashmir Division running their affairs on proprietary land, having their period of affiliation…