Teacher in violence-torn Kashmir starts makeshift schools
August 30, 2016 10:06
Wedding halls and prayer rooms have been turned into classrooms in Kashmir as families struggle to provide children with a normal life after more than 50 days of the Muslim-majority region's worst violence in years.
At least 68 civilians and two security officials have been killed and more than 9,000 people injured, according to official tallies, in clashes between protesters chaffing at Indian rule and security forces.
Authorities trying to stifle protests that erupted after a young militant leader was gunned down by the security forces on July 8 ordered schools and colleges to close two days later.
There's no sign of them re-opening.
Teacher Ghulam Rasool Kambay, seeing children becoming increasingly restless cooped up at home, decided to do something.
He opened a tutorial centre in a village on Aug. 3 and now has more than a dozen of them in villages in a district south of the region's main city of Srinagar. Read the story here.
Representational image.
At least 68 civilians and two security officials have been killed and more than 9,000 people injured, according to official tallies, in clashes between protesters chaffing at Indian rule and security forces.
Authorities trying to stifle protests that erupted after a young militant leader was gunned down by the security forces on July 8 ordered schools and colleges to close two days later.
There's no sign of them re-opening.
Teacher Ghulam Rasool Kambay, seeing children becoming increasingly restless cooped up at home, decided to do something.
He opened a tutorial centre in a village on Aug. 3 and now has more than a dozen of them in villages in a district south of the region's main city of Srinagar. Read the story here.
Representational image.
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