While the Kashmiri students are hesitant to return to their colleges and universities in outside states, the governor administration has claimed to have ensured their safety.
Talking to Greater Kashmir, governor’s advisor KhurshidAhmad Ganai said the students should return to their respective institutions.He said the state administration will again take up the matter with the homeministry and ask them to issue advisory for the safety of Kashmiri students.
“By Monday the matter will be taken up with the ministry ofhome affairs. We will inform them that students are joining back their collegesand universities and the government should take all necessary measures toensure safety of Kashmiri students,” Ganai said.
Around 3000 Kashmiri students returned to the valley afterfacing harassment and intimidation by mobs in outside states in wake of anattack on CRPF convoy in Pulwama leaving more than 40 dead.
Around a dozen videos came to fore wherein Kashmiri studentswere beaten and threatened to vacate their rented accommodations. The Kashmiristudents faced intimidation in Dehradun, Uttarakhand and Haryana.
Also, more than 20 students were suspended by the collegeauthorities while as few were rusticated and two Kashmiri professors were alsosacked by the outside state institutions.
In wake of this, the parents of the students are hesitant to send their children back to the colleges in outside states. Student organisations recently convened several meetings and urged the state administration to ensure their safety in outside states.
They urged the government to set up a nodal agency which will directly coordinate with the concerned administration in outside states.
However, the advisor said the state administration willensure no student faces any inconvenience in their colleges. “Students shouldjoin their institutions because it is not desirable that their studies orcareer suffer because of what happened last month,” he said.
On Friday, the Prime Minister had expressed his displeasureover harassment of Kashmiri students and traders. His statement came in thewake of assault on two Kashmiri vendors in Lucknow.