Gujjar leader demands policy for proper functioning of mobile schools in J-K

A prominent Gujjar leader on Sunday demanded a policy to ensure proper functioning of mobile schools meant to benefit half-settled and unsettled nomadic Gujjar and Bakerwal tribes in Jammu and Kashmir.

Shamsher Hakla Poonchi also demanded a tribal university and opening of boarding schools on the pattern of Navodaya Vidyalaya in all districts of the Union Territory.

"The previous government in the erstwhile state had opened mobile schools for the children of Gujjar and Bakarwal tribes and that had to move with the nomadic communities during the six months of summer season," Poonchi said in a statement here.

He claimed that many mobile schools do not move with these tribes during summer season, as a result of which the children are losing out on studies.

"Many mobile schools have been converted to stationary schools.The people of half-settled and unsettled tribes of Gujjar and Bakarwal are living a difficult life and their children are lagging in education," Poonchi said.

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