With Jammu & Kashmir police splashing a letter to the Principals of private schools to seek reservation for the wards of police personnel a message has gone out that police now intends to intervene in the admission procedures in private schools. The decision of the police department to seek reservations for the wards of police personnel in private schools is both challengeable and as well as questionable on many counts. If at all police wants reservations for the wards of police personnel in private schools it is the domain of the education department but not the police top brass to take up the issue with the owners of private schools. A letter splashed for attending a meeting with a committee of the police department to the principals of private schools from the police headquarters should have been issued by the directorates of school education department in Srinagar and Jammu. Unfortunately the course of action which should have been initiated by the civil administration has been set rolling into motion by the police department. As the president of the Private Schools Association and majority of the principals invited for a meeting with a committee of police department constituted for the purpose at the office DIG South Kashmir in Anantnag district have shown their unwillingness to attend the meeting the confrontation between the police and the private schools over this issue could disturb the already disturbing educational atmosphere in private schools. One simple question which deserves a detailed explanation from the police department is that why the police top brass has not started the demand for reservations in admissions in government schools. The decision of the police department to start demand for reservations in admissions for the wards of police personnel overtly and covertly conveys the message that people at the helm both in the police department and as well as the civil administration don’t tend to contribute in any way for raising the standards of education in government schools.
Since the action of the police department on reservation of admissions for the wards of police personnel in private schools is tantamount to policing the admissions in these schools, administrative wisdom demands that police department withdraws this provocative course of action in the larger public interests.
In fact police top brass should have told the police personnel to prefer admission of their wards in government but not private schools. Interestingly the police department is already running two police public schools one each in Srinagar and Jammu and why the police department does not tend to open such schools at district headquarters also?Interstingly the Director General Police Dr S P Vaid has said that police wants preferences, not reservations to wards of police personnel in private schools but one wonders that why police chief is not exploring the possibilities of opening up police public schools at district headquarters when two police public schools are already functional in twin capital cities Srinagar and Jammu. Can the police chief tell the people of the state that has police department failed to provide quality education to the wards of police personnel in two police public schools in Srinagar and Jammu or it tends to intervene in the working of private schools just to extend some favours in admissions to the relations and family friends of police personnel? Since the action of the police department on reservation of admissions for the wards of police personnel in private schools is tantamount to policing the admissions in these schools, administrative wisdom demands that police department withdraws this provocative course of action in the larger public interests.
