Decline of moral education in Kashmir

The decline of moral education has led to the waywardness of boys and girls on streets in Srinagar and other major townships of Kashmir Valley. The waywardness of the young lot is being witnessed helplessly both the uniformed men and the people moving on streets near the coaching centers . Though police during summer months trap the young students on charges of eve teasing and sent them to police lock ups during summer months, but they are allowed to go scott free later. The time when immoral traffic is seen taking place under broad day light near coaching center on the ever busy New Airport Road Srinagar and commercial hubs of other towns in Kashmir valley, the sleuths of Kashmir police shut eyes partly to let the coaching centers become the center of immoral trafficking. Though some civil society groups had woke up from deep slumber to call for restrictions on waywardness in schools and colleges this year, but their cries were lost in the din for the reasons that law enforcement authorities were reluctant to cooperate with the civil society groups. Unfortunate part of Kashmir society is that people tend to settle scores than addressing the issues of public concern. Had both the civil society and law enforcement authorities been serious and sensitive over the growing waywardness in Kashmir, they would have joined hands to morally educate the youth to let them know the consequences of waywardness in future. The moral education started by some civil society groups few years back in Kashmir valley would have driven youth away from the path of waywardness but it was left in the mid way. The recent incidents of alleged rape must have attracted the attention of both the civil society groups and as well as law enforcement authorities. Unless and until the civil society groups and law enforcing authorities don’t join hands for reviving the process of moral education in schools and colleges, the growing menace of waywardness can’t be controlled.
The time has come for both the civil society groups and law enforcement authorities in Kashmir to read the writing on wall and revive the process of moral education immediately. The sooner they join hands to revive the process of moral education in schools and colleges, the better it will be for the future of the youth in Kashmir. Any delay on this count may prove disastrous for the future of the society in Kashmir. So both the civil society groups and the law enforcement agencies should read the writing on wall and work hard in close coordination for reviving both conventional and some modern methods of moral education.