Srinagar, Oct 28: Minister for Education Sakina Itoo on Tuesday said that Education Department in J&K was on the verge of collapse due to acute shortages of staff at multiple levels. She said the freeze on employment in education and health sector was “ruining” the the crucial departments.

Aiming guns at the dispensations that “ruled for the past 10 years”, she said many schools and higher secondaries were underserved as the department did not have adequate employees to post in every educational institution. The Minister called the “freeze” on the employment in these key departments as “anti-people”.

She informed the house that the J&K Government has given assent to remove the freeze on 50% of the vacancies. “Hon’ble CM Omar Abdullah has kindly assented to remove freeze from 50 percent

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