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SOCIO –ECONOMIC BACKGROUND- CHALLENGES

Situated in the heart of Old City of Srinagar, it holds a very distinct position in terms culture and
locality. There are some premier institutions like Sheri Kashmir institute of medical sciences,
University of Kashmir, National institute of Technology, Baba atomic research centre surrounding the
school. The children of the employees of these institutions who are not only from far flung villages/
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areas of Jammu and Kashmir but also from the country also seek admission in classes 11 and 12 .
The official language is URDU, medium of teaching is English and native language is Kashmiri but
there are also children whose mother tongue is Gojri, Pahari, Balti, Punjabi, Dogri etc depending upon
their birth place. This school also have children of Bakerwaals (Nomads).This school has the highest
diversification in terms of its language and culture and unique in its diversity due to its location and
geographical position as mentioned above. Moreover to work in a conflict zone in itself is a very big
challenge.

CHALLENGES:

 Being a Government school, absenteeism was a big challenge. Kids from poor families attend
to work and rich families attend to private tuition and in both cases they tend to miss the
school. Also as we get lesser number of instructional days (91 days in 2016 and 120 days in
2017) and so on.

 Infrastructure was a challenge; The school is surrounded by most of the private reputed schools
with extraordinary infrastructure.The infrastructure of our school in comparison to these
private schools was very ordinary or poor, in availability of well maintained and well equipped
labs, libraries, inadequate equipments, Inadequate enabling resources, with no electrification

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