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Her father, Syed Altaf Hussain, a shawl trader, said he was initially worried about the safety of his daughter because of the boycott call by the separatists. “But now I am satisfied with the security around the examination centre,” Hussain said.
Like Hussain, hundreds of parents waited anxiously outside examination centres in Srinagar. “I am waiting for my daughter, Farzana Rashid,” said her mother Shafakat Akhtar, who seemed more concerned about how her daughter would fare in the exam than about threats from separatists.
Zahoor Ahmad Chatt, chairman of the Jammu & Kashmir School Board of Education, said out of 32,044 students, 30,292 took their tests on Monday. “The exams were held without any disruption,” Chatt said. The state government organised security at 484 exam centres across the Valley. Around 6,200 teachers were deputed as superintendents and invigilators. Restrictions prevailed around all examination centres to ensure smooth conduct of exams besides categorising centres as ‘hypersensitive’, ‘sensitive’ and ‘normal’ owing to vulnerability and local circumstances.
Twenty-five boys and girls took the Arabic language class 12 test at Government Girls’ Higher Secondary School at Hyderpora, near the home of Hurriyat separatist Syed Ali Shah Geelani.
“The exams took place peacefully,” a supervisor said. However, board authorities shifted eight centres in south Kashmir because of stone pelting and other security issues.
(Sourced from agencies, feature image courtesy:oneindia.com)
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