STATE TIMES NEWS
SRINAGAR: According to Commission Secretary School Education, Shaleen Kabra, schools in some districts of the valley and winter zone of Jammu division opened on Thursday after summer vacation.
In rural areas where staff is mostly local, the schools witnessed moderate attendance while in semi-urban centres, restricted movements due to bandh calls resulted in thin attendance in the schools. It is pertinent that schools in the Valley had not observed any break since March 2015 on reopening after the floods till the summer vacations from 1st July 2016 were announced as even during winter months, tuitions were conducted for students with active participation of teachers. Super 50 Tuitions Centres proved useful for meritorious students, he said.