The disconnection even from foot habits, Beg pointed out, can be gauged from the fact that people come to Fateh Kadal harisa wala( breakfast meat variety consumed in winters) late evening to buy the breakfast delicacy for dinner.
Author of ' Srinagar: My City, My Dreams ' Zahid G Muhammad blame the state government for this.“ By introducing NCERT in the statethe history and geography of the state was taken out of curricula after the 1975 accord- and then education minister was passionate about removing Kashmir history which was from class 2 to 10.”
Writer and thinkers are calling for rethinking on how to revive the connection. Well-known columnist Abdul Wahid said,“ We have to tell our youth about our culture. Those who have come to live in city have to know what city life meant in real terms. We may devise some methods to do that. We must take our schoolchildren and show them the historic places, various shrines and other interesting locations of Srinagar.”
How to revive cultural heritage of Srinagar
For an effective management of the heritage resources of the city and their conservation, it is recommended that a detailed Heritage Resource Management Plan for the urban heritage of city be prepared. �The exercise could be combined with the preparation of Zonal plan for the city. As an initial step work on four culturally significant areas of the city could be started, these include: �The Jhelum River front from Zero Bridge to Safakadal �Heritage Corridor around Mazari Salatee, Zaina Kadal( From Ali
Kadal to left side of erstwhile Nali mar) �Heritage Corridor around Jamia Masjid extending upto Hari
Parbat �The walled Mughal city of Nagar Nagar and its immediate surroundings
Grim situation of Srinagar education system
�The area has adequate number of educational institutions.
�The government schools of the area have excellent infrastructure with highly qualified well paid staff but despite this the respondents prefer sending their children to private English medium schools
�The government schools are not able to market their facilities like private schools.
�The satisfaction level of respondents with the quality of education provided is 4.27 on a scale of 1-5
�The level of satisfaction corresponds to performance of private schools as majority of respondents send their children to private schools. The reasons of the slight dissatisfaction are high school fees of the private schools and
�lack of answerability and proper communication between the teachers and parents in government teachers.