Srinagar: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has
appealed to the separatists to stop giving strike calls for
the sake of children as disruption of classes would ruin their
future.
"Strikes affect our children directly. Schools and
colleges remain closed and their education suffer. This way,
we are ruining their future," Omar said at a function here
last evening.
He said, some "vested interests" were trying to make
futile attempts to derail the peaceful atmosphere in the state
and playing with the future of our youth.
"It is necessary that conducive atmosphere should prevail
so that our youngsters and students could go to their schools,
colleges and universities and secure their academic career."
Omar said, "the youths have tremendous talents and sense
of competition and these need to be channelised in a proper
manner so that they could compete at national and
international levels in any stream of education, sports and
technology".
PTI
First Published: Sunday, March 07, 2010, 18:44