Ban On Academic Activities In All Schools Of Falah-e-Aam Trust

Ban on academic activities in all schools of Falah-e-Aam Trust associated with banned Jamaat: Terror Funding In Kashmir.

Taking a big decision, the Jammu and Kashmir administration has directed an immediate ban on academic activities in all schools affiliated with the Falah-e-Aam.

Falah-e-Aam is a trust belonging to the banned organization Jamaat-e-Islami.

These schools have also come under the purview of the ban. Apart from the syllabus prescribed by NCERT, Arabic, Urdu, Persian, and Islam are also taught in these schools.

Now there will be no new admission to these schools, there will be no new registration.

Along with this, instructions have been given to the Chief Education Officer to prepare complete details with the district administration as to what should be done with the property of the trust’s schools.

The sword of a ban on the trust’s schools started hanging in February 2019 itself, when the state government had banned Jamaat-e-Islami.

Issuing an order, Principal Secretary, School Education Department, BK Singh said that all academic activities in all the schools of Falah-e-Aam Trust in J&K are closed with immediate effect.

Along with this, all the students studying in banned and closed institutions should enroll in their nearest government school to continue their education and save their academic sessions for the years 2021-22.

All the District Chief Education Officers, Principals, and Zonal Education Officers should help in the admission of these students.

323 schools of the trust in the entire state: Sources said that the Falah-e-Aam Trust runs about 323 schools in the entire state.

Of these, 316 are in Kashmir, and seven are in the Jammu division. There are about 11 thousand students in these schools and about four thousand teachers and other staff.

There are about half a dozen higher secondary schools in the subordinate schools of the trust. Falah-e-Aam Trust was formed by Jamaat-e-Islami in 1972.

Earlier, the Jamaat itself used to run schools in different areas of the valley. Later this responsibility was handed over to the Falah-e-Aam Trust.

Jagmohan had imposed restrictions in 1990 also: This is the second time in the period of ongoing terrorist violence in J&K when the schools of Falah-e-Aam Trust have been closed.

Earlier in 1990, the then Governor Jagmohan had closed these schools along with banning Jamaat-e-Islami. This decision was also challenged in the court by some people associated with the trust.

Later, the government had regularized about one thousand teachers working in these schools in the Jammu and Kashmir School Education Department.

The father of Hizbul Mujahideen poster boy Burhan Wani, who was killed in 2016, had also reached the government school as a teacher from the school of Falah-e-Aam Trust.

After the intervention of the court, the schools of Falah-e-Aam Trust were again functional after about five years.

The students and their relatives who came out of the Falah-e-Aam Trust provided a strong base to the Jamaat.

Many students studying in these schools are also working in high positions in the Jammu and Kashmir state administration.

The largest school of Falah-e-Aam in the Jammu division is in district Doda, where about 200 non-Muslim students also study.

In most of the schools on occupied government land, many cases were registered:

NIA, which is probing the cases related to terrorist and separatist activities and terror financing in Kashmir, has also filed the Falah-e-Aam Trust in the plaintiff during the years 2020 and 2021.

Searches were conducted in various offices and institutions of the Most of the schools belonging to the trust are built on unauthorizedly occupied government or community land.

In many cases, the Trust in connivance with the employees of the Revenue Department has captured the land through terrorists.

The State Investigation Agency (SIA) has also started an investigation by registering FIR in many such cases.