Overview

• District teams with police and nearby government principals visited campuses across 10 Kashmir districts on Saturday and reported a largely peaceful handover that did not disrupt classes.
• The government order cites MHA UAPA notifications from 2019 and 2024 and says the schools’ managing committees had expired or drew adverse intelligence reports.
• Under the order, district magistrates or deputy commissioners are to assume control, ensure NEP norms, and propose fresh, verified management committees.
• Education Minister Sakina Itoo says her approved plan was for nearest principals to ‘look after’ the schools for about three months and alleges the issued order was altered without her knowledge.
• Regional parties including PDP, People’s Conference and Apni Party condemned the action, the BJP welcomed it, and former Jamaat-linked JDF called it administrative overreach.