Srinagar, Jan 30: PHDCCI Kashmir chapter has requested the J&K administration for advance arrangements for vaccine booster shots for teachers and required testing for students and unvaccinated teachers during winter vacation.
In a press statement to Ziraat Times, Baldev Singh Raina, chairman Kashmir chapter stated that children are the “lost voices” of this pandemic, and at this stage of the pandemic we must acknowledge and follow the principle set by both the World Health Organisation and the United Nations Children’s Fund that schools must be the last to close and the first to open in a pandemic situation.
“A delay in returning to in-person learning will put children’s mental health at risk. We believe that all children in J&K have a fundamental right to resume in person education and PHDCCI urge all representatives of associations to join us in reassuring the administration, parents, teachers and children that it is in everyone’s best interest to restart in-person learning as soon as possible”, Mr Baldev said.
The government should announce specific measures for reopening the schools so that teachers, school authorities, and children’s and parents would remain prepared at least a month before the schools get resumed, he further added.
