Ishrat Tanki- Woman who worked tirelessly for Kashmir’s

Srinagar, 31 March:-In times where women are still not seen on par with men, a city women is working hard to educate hundreds of children by running two educational institutions, one in north Kashmir, and the second in central Kashmir’s Srinagar district.

Ishrat Tanki, 37- yr-old woman, hailing from the Shalimar area of Central Kashmir’s Srinagar district, has completed her bachelor’s from Jamia Millia University and later completed Software engineering from Aptech Delhi.

“Since the beginning of civilization, there has been bulk evidence of women being considered inferior to men. Almost every country, no matter how progressive has a history of ill-treating women. This has eventually nudged women to retrospect their status in society and has even led women from all over the world to be rebellious to reach the status they have today,” said Tanki.

In 2015, Ishrat established the branch of an educational institution in the Tappar area of north Kashmir’s Pattan, through which she gave employment to at least 30 well-educated youth.

“After marriage, I return back to Valley from Dubai, I saw academics were destroyed here due to untoward situations, so I decided to set-up a school for the bright future of students in rural areas,” Ishrat said.

According to Ishrat, her father is running a business in Mumbai. From an early age, i was working alongside my father, he raised me a hard worker and taught me incredible life lessons, he has been the root of my drive and inspiration to become successful in my mission.

“We recently conducted an interview to hire some boys from the valley for our business, among them most candidates were from rural and far-flung areas,” Tanki said.

Ishrat said that education is one of the most important means of empowering women with the knowledge, skills, and self-confidence necessary to participate fully in the development process.

“School has to play a vital role for bringing development in students, as well as academics and Co-Curricular activities, my main motive is to provide exposure to the students, so they can’t suffer any hardship in future,” she added.

Ishrat further said, “it is tough for women to manage household chores, administering and motherhood, in beginning, i face too much hardship, but I didn’t lose hope.”

“Empowering a woman today will lead to a progressive society for tomorrow and this silver lining should be our motivation in analyzing any gender equality discussion,” she added.