Srinagar, Feb 03: In view of ‘Craptastic quality’ of education in colleges of Jammu and Kashmir, youth here prefer to migrate to other states India for better quality of education as compared to the regional institutes.
The official documents accessed by the news agency—Kashmir News Agency (KNO) reveal, “The youth of Union Territory Jammu and Kashmir are looking at colleges and universities outside, claiming that the higher education institutes in other states and UTs have a better quality of education as compared to the regional institutes.”
It said that of some of those who seek admissions in colleges outside Jammu and Kashmir, highlighting a glaring gap in the education infrastructure of the UT at the college and university level.
“As per the official data, there are just 208 private unaided colleges in Jammu and Kashmir, including professional colleges,” it reads.
The official documents further reads that out of the total number of private and government colleges, not all are functional, and few colleges still don’t have their complete infrastructure in place.
About the effective Single Window System (SWS), the document reveals that the government will create a ‘SWS clearance body’ and will make it operationalize for granting time bound approvals and clearances for setting up of new private schools, residential schools, colleges, technical education institutes and universities.
The documents further said that the government will also make provisions for operationalizing Integrated Application for all permissions.
Principal Secretary, Higher Education Department was not available for his comments in this regard—(KNO)
