Srinagar, July 14: Protests coupled with strikes and curfews in the Valley have hit the students hard with schools contemplating extra classes and opting for e-lectures to make up the loss.
 The J&K Education Department is planning to compensate it by holding extra and special classes while some schools are also opting for e-lectures that are distributed to the students through Internet.
 "I have directed the concerned to organise special and extra classes to complete the loss of the academic session," the Education Minister, Peerzada Muhammad Syeed said.
 Notices by many schools in the local dailies here ask the students to complete some part of the syllabus at home and consult the subject teacher for help, if accessible.
 Principal of Delhi Public School, Kashmir, K K Sharma noted that students had suffered a lot in the last one month when schools remained closed for 20 days.
 He said the school, however, was doing best to compensate for the loss and keep the students right on track with e-lectures distributed to them frequently.
 "Students are suffering a lot, particularly the ones who have to appear in board exams. We are frequently providing them with electronic lectures and home assignments so that they remain in touch with studies," he said.
 "We will try to compensate like we did during the Amarnath land row in 2008. It was a two month strike. If needed, we will take extra classes by the cooperation from both the teachers as well as the students," Secretary School Education, G A Peer told PTI.
 A chemistry lecturer at the Government Girls' Higher Secondary school, Bandipore said, "Class XII students have a lot of syllabus which is difficult to complete if the spate of curfew and hartals continues. Term exams for the Class XI have been postponed. When would they take the Term 1 and when would the Term 2 exams be taken."
 "Such a long period of strikes is frustrating. We joined in April and studied for two months...June and July is almost negligible," Fatima, a Class X student, said.
 With some schools following the CBSE pattern of education rather than Board of School Education, the students of such institutions seem to be more apprehensive. "Being CBSE students we are bound to suffer because the state board may reduce the syllabus seeing the situation around, but we cannot expect such a relaxation," a student of Delhi Public School said.

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