Srinagar, April 18 -- The Jammu & Kashmir government has taken over 58 private schools in the Valley on the grounds that they were affiliated with the banned Jamaat-e-Islami, Jammu and Kashmir, and its educational body, Falah-e-Aam Trust (FAT).
The takeover comes nearly eight months after the J&K government took control of 215 Jamaat-affiliated schools. The Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India had outlawed Jamaat in 2019.
A government order from J&K's Education Secretary issued on Friday said the intelligence agencies have identified 58 more such functional schools which were found to be directly or indirectly affiliated with proscribed organisation Jamat-e-Islami (JeI)/Falah-e-Aam Trust (FAT). The order said the validity of the ...