National Secular Forum (NSF) has appealed Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and other concerned to fill the pivotal post of Chairman Board of School Education (BOSE) at the earliest.NSF President Sukhdev Singh has expressed “Serious concern over post of chairman BOSE is remaining vacant for the past more than ten months.” “BOSE is presently run by Secretary School Education who has already a lot of responsibilities. The School Education is a very big department spread across the length and breadth of the State and prolonged dual responsibility attached to a single officer is neither good for BOSE nor for School Education Department,” he added.
He added that BOSE is running without Chairman since last ten months & the responsibility has been given to Commissioner Secretary who sits in Civil Secretariat. He added due to non availability of Commissioner Secretary creates lot of problems are faced by students and local residents of Jammu & Kashmir.Sukhdev said that students from all regions of the state are facing problems in BOSE and due to non availability of Chairman; staff was creating mess in their work. “BOSE has become a non-accountable organizations and government’s adhoc approach to deal with the organizations of vital importance as that of BOSE tells upon the interests of the student community. Among those who were present in the press-conference included, Barket Tahir, Qayoom Malik, Reshikesh Rana and Amit Salgotra.