J&K students show better results despite unrest

Jammu and Kashmir Education Minister, Peerzada Mohammad Sayeed said on Tuesday that 'the tireless efforts of the state government to open educational institutions and hold exams in time despite the Valley unrest have been vindicated by this year's results which have shown improvement over those of last year.'

The state board of school education on Tuesday announced the results of the class 10 annual examination which recorded a three percent increase in the pass percentage over last year.

"Compared to last year's exam results, this year's pass percentage has been 65 percent, an increase of three percent," Peerzada said.

The state education minister was talking to mediapersons in winter capital Jammu immediately after the result announcement.

The state government had opened the schools in Kashmir in the last week of October amid the unrest that claimed 112 lives and left hundreds others wounded by providing security cover to the schools and the buses those ferried the students.

He said that the parents had fully cooperated with the government by sending their wards to school at grave risk enabling the government to hold the annual exams in time and saved the precious academic year of the students.  

On winter schooling the minister said the decision had to be reviewed in view of the recent snowfall in Kashmir.