On the evening of November 3, when Zeeshan Mushtaq, 16, was preparing for his Class 10 exams at his uncle’s home at Kanipora in South Kashmir’s Shopian district, a gunbattle broke out between militants and security forces in a village nearby. As the firing went on all night, Zeeshan says, they put off all the lights in their house, and he couldn’t study.
In the results for Kashmir division Shopian along with Pulwama, the hotbeds of the current unrest in Kashmir, saw the highest pass percentages of all the districts in the Valley (83 per cent and 84.50 per cent respectively).
Mudasir Bashir, who teaches Social Science at the school, says they took extra classes for Class 10 and also converted some holidays into working days to complete the syllabus. Since 2015-2016, the state government has organised classes for students during winter vacations in the Valley.
Bashir says it was only in “extreme conditions” that the classes were cancelled.
Read more in a report by Adil Akhzer published in The Indian Express...
