SRINAGAR: Over 3,000 govt faculties in J&Okay have had zero or lower than 10 college students since 2022, schooling minister Sakina Itoo advised the meeting on Saturday.Of the three,192 such faculties, 1494 are in Jammu division and 1,698 in Kashmir, Nationwide Convention’s (NC) Itoo mentioned in a written reply to a query from BJP legislator RS Pathania.In Jammu, Kathua district has the best variety of such faculties at 508. In Kashmir, Baramulla district tops the record of such faculties with 396. Srinagar has the bottom quantity within the Valley with 90 such faculties, whereas Poonch has the bottom in Jammu division with 17.The NC govt additionally disclosed main infrastructure gaps — 2,698 faculties don’t have boys’ bathrooms, 57 lack women’ bathrooms, 9,078 faculties haven’t any boundary partitions, and 10,896 faculties lack playgrounds.Pathania known as the numbers a “large expose”, arguing the information mirrored a scarcity of public confidence in authorities faculties. “If individuals are not enrolling their youngsters in these faculties, why are they being opened,” he mentioned, alleging the colleges are being run primarily to accommodate instructing workers.Naeem Akhtar, former J&Okay schooling minister of PDP, known as it a “critical scenario” and accused the NC govt of lowering schooling as an employment scheme for some lecturers whereas neglecting the prime responsibility of training college students. “Govt’s major duty is human improvement. This knowledge presents a dismal image. It’s not that there aren’t any college students. They’re pressured to maneuver to personal faculties due to lack of amenities in govt faculties and poor pedagogy,” Akhtar mentioned.Non-public Colleges Affiliation of Jammu and Kashmir (PSAJK) president Baba Nazrul Islam agreed that the information displays rising desire for personal faculties on account of higher infrastructure, accountability and sooner decision-making. He cautioned, nonetheless, that the federal government should not view personal faculties as opponents however as “data companions”. “If the federal government agrees to collaborate with personal faculties, the problem may be addressed,” Islam mentioned.