Daily Mirror of Kashmir

  Educating India being the motto of the group, Maqsood Ahmed aim is to provide education to 1,00,000 students by the year 2025. Maqsood Ahmed, is Managing Director and founder of Nizamia Education Group (NEG). In an exclusive interview with mirror of Kashmir he talks to Rameez Makhdoomi. A bit about your early days? I am from Border District of  poonch , Surnakote Tehsil ,village Marhot. I completed my higher secondary from Poonch from Baba Nizamia school.  I could not get through  my dream of becoming Doctor as I did not get selected in NEET. I was much mentally disturbed but in 2012 I decided to start as education counsellor and I moved from Poonch to Jammu and Delhi . We registered Nizamia consultancy with Ministry of Corporate .We then started our work in Seven sister states of  North East , Jaharkhand and also moved to African , SAARC  countries . We had just one student in 2012 but within due period of growth we have been able to provide admission to...

 Time overdue to open Schools in Kashmir : G N Var  Schools for more than 168 million children globally have been completely closed for almost more than  year and half  due to COVID-19 lockdowns, according to  data released  by UNICEF.  In Kashmir too now calls of opening schools are growing .  The Mirror of Kashmir recently took an opportunity to talk with G N Var President  Private Schools' Association of J&K (PSAJK) ,an important face of our education sector. He talked with our correspondent Rameez Makhdoomi. Has time come to open schools ? Time has come long back to open our schools .Few Days back I was in Capital Delhi to attend a conference on same issue and we came to know that many States of India are now planning to open back the school's while some have already opened the schools and unfortunately we have no talk of opening schools in Jammu and Kashmir from Government side. Secondly , if a child can roam freely in public parks a...

  Houseboats have kept flame of Kashmir tourism alive :Muhammad Yakub Dunoo, Spokesperson, Kashmir Houseboat owners Association The eminent face of Kashmir Houseboat industry Muhammad Yakub Dunoo, Spokesperson, Kashmir Houseboat owners Association talks to Mirror of Kashmir Senior Correspondent Rameez Makhdoomi in an exclusive interview. Your take on new House boat policy 2020 after studying it ? Actually there were few pre condition in the Houseboat policy 2020 as one had to get  NOC from PDD, Pollution Control Board, Fire Department etc  as these were not acceptable to us and we told this categorically to Department of tourism .  Then it was send back  to Secretariat for reforming it and esteemed LG brought reformed policy recently. Is this reformed Houseboat policy acceptable to you ? Well there are  many good things in our favour now but still few other things are unfavorable to us which would be taken up duly with the concerned authorities . What ...