Army Chief’s unwanted remark

Questions won’t be asked if General Bipin Rawat the incumbent Army Chief General Bipin Rawat won’t have talked about the methods of teaching teachers adopt in schools in Kashmir. General Rawat for all practical purposes is a soldier and reserves the right to deliver sermons to soldiers on the challenges they face in a challenging atmosphere of security in Jammu & Kashmir. Since the deniable fact is that a soldier can’t be a teacher and a teacher can’t be a soldier, so the state’s education minister Altaf Bukhari has very rightly asked the army Chief not to trespass his given as the education department overseeing the working of the schools is overseeing the work of teachers in class rooms. Interestingly people both in the government and the opposition have acknowledged the improvement witnessed in the working of schools after the take the cover of the portfolio of education by Altaf Bukhari and as such if at all the Army Chief General Bipin Rawat wanted to talk about the role of teachers and methods of teaching in Kashmir schools, better it would have been for him to endorse the views of the people in the government and the opposition about the improvements witnessed in the working of education system in Jammu & Kashmir.
General Bipin before talking about the teachers and methods of teaching in government schools could have recalled the challenges army, paramilitaries and police were facing insides the premises of the educational institutions during summer unrest in the year 2016 when Nayeem Akhter another minister in the Mehbooba government was holding the portfolio of education department. Unlike General Bipin Rawat the incumbent education minister Altaf Bukhari does not carry a bag of wild allegations on his should but he is only minister in the Mehbooba government who has the distinction of wining accolades for smoothening the work of schools from all stake holders— people in government and the opposition, the teachers, and the students. So very rightly Altaf Bukhari has asked the army Chief General Bipin Rawat to stop interfering in the matters concerning education and instead focus on the mandate which the constitution has given him as the army chief.