JK wants English medium school to compete with world

Updated on: Thursday, August 13, 2009

Batalik: To keep pace with rest of the country and compete with the world outside, students in Batalik, a nondescript village in Jammu and Kashmir rattled by Pakistani shelling during the Kargil war, want a English medium school where they hone their talents.

'We want an English medium public school here so that we can compete with rest of the state. We have talent to become officers, but want opportunity and right kind of English medium education,' Kahro Nisha, a class eight student, says.

Arif Ali, a class nine student, says, 'English is an universal language. English medium schooling can help children to compete with the world outside.'

'After matriculation, I will have go to Kargil town, 70 km from here to attend my higher secondary classes and then to Srinagar for higher education,' he says.

'When I went to Srinagar and Jammu last year, I realised that we were living in some other world. We do not have any good educational institutes to hone our talent,' Kahro says.

'Even though we get backward certificates through which we get preference in government jobs, but what is the use when most children in the area are class five dropouts due to lack of schools,' Nadir Hussain, a villager

JK wants English medium school to compete with world

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