{"id":85071,"date":"2025-01-03T21:04:50","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T15:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/?p=85071"},"modified":"2025-01-03T21:04:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T15:34:50","slug":"srinagar-schools-high-book-charges-come-under-radar-education-minister-assures-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/03\/srinagar-schools-high-book-charges-come-under-radar-education-minister-assures-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Srinagar School&#8217;s High Book Charges Come Under Radar; Education Minister assures Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p>Srinagar, Jan 3 (JKNS): The Jammu and Kashmir government has initiated an enquiry into Doon International School, Srinagar, following concerns raised over the high prices of books sold at the school.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after a social media post highlighted the exorbitant cost of books for Grade 1 students.<\/p>\n<p>A user on X (formerly Twitter) as per news agency JKNS posted a picture of a receipt for book purchases, tagging Education Minister @sakinaitoo, with the caption, &#8220;Here is what Doon School books cost. This amount was paid for Grade first. Hope action is taken for such exorbitant prices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In response, the Education Minister assured that an enquiry had been initiated into the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The minister has earlier stassed on schools that no school would be allowed to fix their own book prices, reiterating that only JKBose-approved books should be purchased. (JKNS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, Jan 3 (JKNS): The Jammu and Kashmir government has initiated an enquiry into Doon International School, Srinagar, following concerns raised over the high prices of books sold at the school. This comes after a social media post highlighted the exorbitant cost of books for Grade 1 students. A user on X (formerly Twitter) as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85072,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-eucation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85073,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85071\/revisions\/85073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}