In a big announcement, an educational institute in Karnataka made free education for children of Kashmiri Pandits, inspired by the film ‘The Kashmir Files’.
The convener of Ambika Mahavidyalaya in Puttur town in Dakshina Kannada district, Subramanya Nattoj, made this announcement on Saturday. Nattoj made a visit to the Jammu after he was moved by Vivek Agnihotri’s ‘The Kashmir Files’, and felt to do something for the children of Kashmiri Pandits.
According to reports, the institution shall provide free education from the sixth standard to graduation. The hostel facility will also be provided free of cost to such students. The institution has already got four Kashmiri Pandits admitted to the institute.
‘The Kashmir Files’, is based on the suffering of the Kashmiri Pandits at the time of the exodus.
“It will cost up to Rs 80,000 per student for a year to get an education in this institute. The other facilities would cost them Rs 50,000 annually. But all facilities would be freely available to the children of Kashmiri Pandits,” he said.
‘The Kashmir Files’ presents a fictional storyline centered around an exodus of Kashmiri Hindus in the disputed region of Kashmir. It depicts the early 1990s exodus to be a genocide, a notion that is widely considered inaccurate and associated with conspiracy theories.
