NEW DELHI: The Centre is set to partner Jammu and Kashmir to help reform school education system in the state and prepare a blueprint to begin with to overcome deficiencies in programme implementation.This will make J&K the second state after Uttar Pradesh with which the Centre will work closely in a sector which falls within the purview of the state government. Anil Swarup , secretary, Department of School Education and Literacy is scheduled to meet J&K governor NN Vohra on September 20 to discuss plans for drawing up the road map.Some of the issues expected to be taken up during the discussions, according to people familiar with the matter, include plans for Aadhaar linkage with enrolment of students, delay in construction of schools using centrally funded schemes and addressing the teacher-student ratio in government schools located in urban as well as rural areas. These issues were highlighted by Swarup in a letter to the state chief secretary earlier this month. “Education is the way forward for a state like J&K where the youth was seen being involved in things like stone pelting,” Swarup told ET.