The apex college students’ affiliation of Jammu and Kashmir has requested state governments to ‘blacklist’ schools with a historical past of alleged hate crimes towards college students from the Valley, and mentioned they’ve drawn up a listing of such establishments spreading “bigotry and hate”.
The demand by the J&Okay College students’ Affiliation comes within the backdrop of alleged incidents of intimidation and assaults on college students from Kashmir in numerous states following Pakistan’s win over India within the ongoing T20 World Cup.
“We’re coordinating with the state governments in Punjab, Karnataka, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh Uttarakhand and different sides, the place Kashmiri college students are learning presently,” JKSA spokesperson Nasir Khuehami mentioned on Friday.
“We’ve ready a full listing of such schools and can ahead it to the federal government to blacklist all these schools which unfold bigotry, hate and harass Kashmiri college students unnecessarily and fail to provide them safety and security,” he added.
He mentioned that Kashmiri college students are being harassed, intimidated, assaulted and police instances filed towards “happenings past their management”. A “unfavorable portrayal” of Kashmiri college students by a bit of media can also be taking part in havoc with the lives of Kashmiri college students. “The first victims of the unfavorable portrayal have been the scholars learning in varied states of the nation,” he mentioned.
In his latest three-day go to to Kashmir, Union house minister Amit Shah had wooed the Kashmiri youth and interacted with 1000’s of them by means of video conferencing in addition to bodily conferences.
An estimated 5,000 college students from Kashmir avail monetary support underneath the Prime Minister’s Particular Scholarship Scheme to enroll in numerous schools throughout the nation. A whole lot of others get admissions on their very own.
Davood Ahmad, one other JKSA office-bearer, mentioned many establishments in numerous states declare excessive self-discipline and 0 tolerance towards discrimination on the idea of area and faith however these claims have fallen proved to be hoax in the case of owing the Kashmiri college students.
“Inside many establishments, at occasions college students are being assaulted on the idea of id, which is a tragic story of id discrimination,” he mentioned.
“College students learning in numerous establishments within the nation have turn out to be mushy targets. The picture of ‘unhealthy Kashmiri’ is orchestrated by a bit of the media and replicated on the bottom by these anti-social parts,” he added.
The Modi authorities had elevated the variety of scholarships underneath PMSS to five,000 to the sooner variety of 1,000 launched by former prime minister Manmohan Singh in 2011 underneath a Rs 1,200-crore bundle for college students to check medical, engineering and different programs in schools throughout the nation. To get the scholarship, a scholar’s household revenue have to be Rs. 6.00 lakh or under yearly.
In 2016, the house ministry established a 24-hour grievance redressal helpline for Kashmiris, particularly college students. The ministry additionally posted a nodal officer, who has the accountability to obtain complaints from Kashmiri college students and coordinate with states for early disposal of such instances.
The helpline was established after ruling and opposition political events raised the difficulty of harassment of Kashmiri youths in varied elements of the nation with then Union house minister Rajnath Singh visited Srinagar in 2016.
Through the 2016 unrest within the Valley, stories of harassment of Kashmiri youths had been acquired from states together with Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.
In Could 2014, a gaggle of Kashmiri college students at Noida Worldwide College (NIU) had been allegedly pressured to chant anti-Pakistan slogans by a gaggle of drunken college students. After a powerful response from the then chief minister Omar Abdullah, the NIU moved over 100 Kashmiri college students staying to a secure home. “Let’s beat patriotism into Kashmiri college students, why don’t we. Nice technique to take away any worry or sense of alienation amongst Kashmiris. Thugs!!!,” Omar had tweeted.
In March 2018, in Meerut’s Swami Vivekananda Subharti College (SVSU) expelled 54 college students from Jammu and Kashmir for allegedly cheering for Pakistan whereas watching a cricket match. The scholars had acquired admission within the SVSU underneath PMSS.
After the 2019 Pulwama assault, a number of instances of harassment of Kashmiri college students had been reported throughout India. In a single case, Kashmiri college students at a Dehradun hostel had been pressured to lock themselves as much as escape a hostile mob that had gathered exterior. They had been evacuated by the district administration later.
