SRINAGAR: The Directorate of School Education Kashmir Saturday said that the admission process in all schools across the valley will begin only after the culmination of annual exams.

Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a function here, Director of School Education Kashmir, Tasaduq Hussain Mir, said as of now no new admissions will take place because no annual exams have been conducted so far.

He said there are guidelines from the administration that the new admission process should be started only after exams are over. He further said as far as the admission fee is concerned, only that fee shall be charged which has been fixed by the fee fixation committee.

About the winter fee, he said parents are liable to pay tuition fees only for their wards and they are not supposed to pay any other fee, be it transport fee. Mir also said the government has started providing heating arrangements in a phased manner from November 15.