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There is no clarity in the order, so won’t close coaching centres, says Coaching Centres’ Association

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Srinagar: Addressing a press conference in Srinagar, the Coaching Centres’ Association of Kashmir (CCAK) said informed that they won’t close down their centres as there is no ‘clarity’ in the order.

On Sunday, the Education Minister Altaf Bukhari ordered the closure of coaching centres in the valley for a period of 90 days. However, the order also says that that those centres which are providing professional coaching will not be affected by the order.

The CCAK also said that no official order has been passed yet.

“There is no clarity which institutions have to be shut,” said general secretary CCAK Latief Masudi, while appealing to the government to end the “ambiguity”.

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He said the coaching for the competitive exams started from ninth grade only. “There are national and international level exams which are held in class 9th. Also students start preparing for JEE and NEET exams from class 11th,” he said.

In wake of the students’ protests against the Kathua rape and murder, the government has been struggling to keep educational institutions open on a regular basis. The student protests, which have been going on for the past two weeks now, refuse to die down.

The principals of the colleges have however blamed the police for ‘disrupting peaceful protests of the students’. Various principals in a meeting told the Education Minister Altaf Bukhari that police interferes with the peaceful protests of the students.

According to a report in the Greater Kashmir,  principal of a college in southern Kashmir told the meeting that whenever students of his college start protesting peacefully, they are stopped by the policemen from the police station adjacent to the campus, which leads to clashes.

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