‘Only in the event you agree’: West Bengal govt to survey unaided Khareji Madrasas

By Express News Service

KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday mentioned her authorities would arrange a high-power committee to survey unaided Khareji Madrasas.

Banerjee additionally introduced services for college kids of the Madrasas who’re taught spiritual rules within the establishments. 

“These are Madrasas that teach the Islamic religion.  We will not interfere with the functioning of these institutions. The survey will be held on only those Madrasas who agree to the request. A high-powered committee will be formed for the survey that will submit a report after six months,” she mentioned at Nabanna, the state secretariat.

Mamata defined that the survey was aimed in order that the scholars are introduced beneath numerous welfare schemes of the state authorities.

 “The high-powered committee will comprise consultants, educationists, representatives from related authorities departments, and members from the native Muslim neighborhood, she added. 

In one other announcement, the state authorities mentioned that it intends to recognise all of the unaided Madrasas which had utilized for recognition within the 12 months 2013-14 and who fulfilled all the standards. According to the state authorities, the variety of such establishments is about 700.

The announcement assumes political significance as calls for for recognition of unaided Madrasas have been raised by the minority neighborhood, which varieties 32 per cent of the full electorates in Bengal and the ruling TMC appeared to have been having fun with the help of this specific neighborhood for the reason that change of guard within the state in 2011.

Sources within the authorities mentioned that the survey is an try and convey the unrecognized Madrasas beneath authorities surveillance.

A lot of unregistered Madrasas got here beneath the scanner of the state authorities following a blast in Khagragarh in 2014 and the involvement of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), an outlawed terror outfit primarily based in Bangladesh, got here to gentle. Investigations revealed the JMB operatives used a number of unaided Madrasas for motivating younger Muslims to work as operatives of the outfit.

Mamata additionally introduced state-wide protests on August 6 on the block degree in opposition to the deprivation of the West Bengal authorities by the Centre.

The announcement of the protests comes within the wake of the Calcutta High Court restraining Trinamool Congress common secretary Abhishek Banerjee’s name to state gherao occasion outdoors the home of BJP leaders on August 5.

KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday mentioned her authorities would arrange a high-power committee to survey unaided Khareji Madrasas.

Banerjee additionally introduced services for college kids of the Madrasas who’re taught spiritual rules within the establishments. 

“These are Madrasas that teach the Islamic religion.  We will not interfere with the functioning of these institutions. The survey will be held on only those Madrasas who agree to the request. A high-powered committee will be formed for the survey that will submit a report after six months,” she mentioned at Nabanna, the state secretariat.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

Mamata defined that the survey was aimed in order that the scholars are introduced beneath numerous welfare schemes of the state authorities.

 “The high-powered committee will comprise consultants, educationists, representatives from related authorities departments, and members from the native Muslim neighborhood, she added. 

In one other announcement, the state authorities mentioned that it intends to recognise all of the unaided Madrasas which had utilized for recognition within the 12 months 2013-14 and who fulfilled all the standards. According to the state authorities, the variety of such establishments is about 700.

The announcement assumes political significance as calls for for recognition of unaided Madrasas have been raised by the minority neighborhood, which varieties 32 per cent of the full electorates in Bengal and the ruling TMC appeared to have been having fun with the help of this specific neighborhood for the reason that change of guard within the state in 2011.

Sources within the authorities mentioned that the survey is an try and convey the unrecognized Madrasas beneath authorities surveillance.

A lot of unregistered Madrasas got here beneath the scanner of the state authorities following a blast in Khagragarh in 2014 and the involvement of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), an outlawed terror outfit primarily based in Bangladesh, got here to gentle. Investigations revealed the JMB operatives used a number of unaided Madrasas for motivating younger Muslims to work as operatives of the outfit.

Mamata additionally introduced state-wide protests on August 6 on the block degree in opposition to the deprivation of the West Bengal authorities by the Centre.

The announcement of the protests comes within the wake of the Calcutta High Court restraining Trinamool Congress common secretary Abhishek Banerjee’s name to state gherao occasion outdoors the home of BJP leaders on August 5.