This year, around 200 students in Class 10 were declared failed by the Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education. These students protested on Tuesday for a mass promotion by assembling at Jewel Chowk area and marching until Tawi Bridge and blocked it for an hour.
This action was initiated due to the fact that they were declared to fail even after assurance of mass promotion as the examinations were not conducted this year due to the pandemic.
They alleged that some of them were detained as they clashed with the police and that their answer sheets were not evaluated properly.