“Mental health specialists attribute the unprecedented rise in mental health issues to broths family atmospheres and as well as environment in schools.
Though unprecedented rise in mental health issues among children of primary classes and as well as teenagers in schools don’t head to any dead end in Jammu & Kashmir and more so in Kashmir valley but unfortunately both Government and as well as Private Schools have done very little to reduce the increasing intensity of the spread of physical and mental health issues among children in primary classes and teenagers in schools across Jammu & Kashmir. Agreed that a robust health system is there to take care of the increasing mental health issues showing unprecedented rise among the youth in the age group 12-25 years in Jammu & Kashmir, but reducing the weight of school bags alone won’t reduce the growing stress among children of primary classes and teenagers in schools leading to occurrence of mental health issues among youth of different classes and categories. Interestingly mental health specialists attribute the unprecedented rise in mental health issues to broths family atmospheres and as well as environment in schools. While some famed private and Government Schools in twin capital cities Srinagar and Jammu and major towns of Jammu & Kashmir have the required infrastructure for providing the facility of extra-curricular to students but irrefutable fact is that most of both private and Government school don’t have the required infrastructure for providing students the facilities for extra-curricular activities even now.
“Since majority of the students enrolled in Government schools come from families of lower middle class income groups, administrative wisdom demands that Government sets up first aid medical centres in schools even in the remotes of the remote areas besides cities and major towns across Jammu & Kashmir. For Government the priority for increasing enrollments is not only the teaching facilities in the class rooms and infrastructural facilities for extra-curricular activities but a far greater priority for the Government is first aid medical centres inside the campuses of schools for the purposes of primary health facilities to children and youth suffering from mental health ailments”.
While the onus of establishing required infrastructure for extra-curricular activities at private schools lies on the owners or the Board Of the trustees of the private schools, it is for the Government to ensure the facility of extra-curricular activities at Government schools even in the remotest of the remote areas not to talk of only villages and towns across Jammu & Kashmir. Concerns not only the infrastructural facilities for extra-curricular activities but also about the facility of first aid medical centres for the purposes of mental health treatment of the children of primary classes and teenagers of higher classes inside the school and college campuses are also rising year after year across Jammu & Kashmir. While some of the famed private schools have the facility of first aid medical centres within their campuses but majority of the private schools are yet to establish such medical aid centres within the school campuses. Unfortunately Government is yet to think about having first medical centres inside the premises of schools even in cities and towns despite the fact that authorities of both the School Education Department known all about the facilities of first aid medical centres at few famed private schools in cities and some major towns of both Kashmir Valley and as well as Jammu division. Since majority of the students enrolled in Government schools come from families of lower middle class income groups, administrative wisdom demands that Government sets up first aid medical centres in schools even in the remotes of the remote areas besides cities and major towns across Jammu & Kashmir. For Government the priority for increasing enrollments is not only the teaching facilities in the class rooms and infrastructural facilities for extra-curricular activities but a far greater priority for the Government is first aid medical centres inside the campuses of schools for the purposes of primary health facilities to children and youth suffering from mental health ailments.
