Chandan Dutta 

JAMMU, May 5: The School Headmaster, Sayeda Anjum, without any authority declared closure of the school on Tuesday affecting the studies of over 300 plus students of this High School in remote village of Doda on  marriage of his son.

As per reports , village Sarpanch, rang up the Minister for  Education, Naeem Akhtar, stating that the school was closed and on this  Minister directed the Director School Education Jammu Smita Sethi and DC Doda to take actions  and suspend all.

A  notice of school closer in view of marriage of one Touseef Ahmed (Headmaster’s son) was  pasted on the wall of the school on the direction of Headmaster. 

 Director School Education Jammu placed the entire staff including Master Javed Iqbal, Shakeel Ahmed Tr,  Bilal Ahmed, Nar Singh, Nazir Ahmed and others under suspension.  

The Education Minister  appealed all the Sarpanches and Panches in the State to closely monitor the functioning of schools and talk to him  directly on phone or to the Cell he has created  in his office for taking actions .