Per : V. K. Jhanji, A. C. J. , (Oral)

Education is fundamental and pivotal, rather the cornerstone, to the social welfare and nation building. Looking back through history, it is found that the aspiration to have a literate society was deeply rooted in our struggle for independence, somuch so that resolutions were passed much earlier to independence by the mainstream political parties spearheading the freedom movement, for providing free and compulsory elementary education through out the country. The visionary founders of our Constitution enshrined this ideal dream of our forefathers in Articles 41 and 45 of the Constitution. The State of Jammu and Kashmir did not lag behind. The State Constituent Assembly set-out identical goals for the State in Section 20 of the Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir. The Government of Jammu and Kashmir, in order to foster the social revolution, and with a view to practically implementing the constitutional directives, as aforesaid, framed law and established elementary schools through the length and breadth of the State. The social revolution was in the process of transformation and realisation when the State was caught in quagmire of the turmoil. I

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