Naeem Akhtar who is Education Minister said that the government has chose to extend the summer vacation by one weeks in the schools and colleges of the valley.
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People complained that their stocks of groceries and other food items have dried up.
Pakistan and India each administer part of Kashmir but both claim the region entirely.
Over a week long cycle of violence has left 40 protesters and two policemen dead in Kashmir.
The government made a verbal apology and called the ban a “mistake”, but then authorities “resorted to a propaganda blitzkrieg insisting that there was no ban”, said Masood Hussain, a senior journalist and editor of the English weekly Kashmir Life, after the meeting with others in the local media industry.
The Finance Minister said that in Jammu and Kashmir it was the battle between the country and Pakistan-sponsored separatist forces.
The largest street protests in recent years in the disputed region erupted last week after Indian troops killed a popular young leader of the largest rebel group fighting against Indian rule in the region.
Protesting over the unbridled use of force by Indian security forces in the occupied Kashmir in Rajya Sabha, he remarked, “My sympathies go out to the families whose youths have been killed in Kashmir”. In addition to the printing ban, cellular and internet services were absent and landline phone access limited, except in Kashmir’s main city of Srinagar city.
For the third day in a row on Tuesday, people in the valley did not get newspapers due to the gag, imposed on Saturday morning when police raided all newspaper printing presses and seized copies that had already been printed. They also detained scores of printing press workers.
Later, Education Minister Naeem Akther had met the editors and asked them not to bring out editions for next three days as movement of newspaper staff and distribution of newspapers was not possible because of strict curfew restrictions across the Kashmir Valley.
CM Mehbooba Mufti had earlier clarified to Union Information and Broadcasting Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu that no ban has been imposed on the publication of newspapers in the troubled state.
“Curfew will continue in all the 10 districts of Kashmir Valley today as well”, a police official said.
Geelani said, “India continues to institutionally perpetrate violence in Jammu and Kashmir, and has ensured so far that no armed forces personnel involved in heinous war crimes to be prosecuted by its own judicial mechanism”.
The owners and editors accused the govt of not speaking in one voice.
SCHOOLS, COLLEGES SHUT TILL JULY 24 Schools and colleges in the Valley, which were scheduled to reopen on Monday, will now open on July 25 as thegovernment on Sunday extended summer vacations by a week in view of the prevailing situation.
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