Root Causes, July 14 -- Private School Preference: Nearly half (46%) of all students in J&K now attend private institutions due to widening learning gaps and infrastructure issues in public schools. As our state, despite decades having rolled by, could not develop her basic infrastructure so that it could compete with private sector. Although we can visibly see that Higher Education Department has a feasible infrastructure. And even then an enrollment crisis is seen higher education department. Yet the primary and middle education suffers a lot on account of lack of basic facilities. Demographics A noticeable drop in the youth population and declining fertility rates has naturally reduced the pool of prospective students. The concluding P...