A Bidar institution takes a big step towards madrasa reform
1 year, 9 months ago

A Bidar institution takes a big step towards madrasa reform

The Hindu  

Among the most contentious issues in India today is the management of madrasas and their effect on society. “It is an attempt at bringing the madrasas into the mainstream system of education by mainstreaming the students,’‘ said Abdul Quadeer, Shaheen group chairman. “We hope to reach out to 10,000 madrasa students through modern education systems and processes in the first phase,’‘ he said. What we are doing though Madrasa Plus is to supplement their system of education by providing additional teachers in routine academic subjects,’‘ he said. Hafiz-Plus programme Since 2012, it has been running the Hafiz Plus program with several batches of madrasa students who have never been to school or who dropped out.

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Karnataka Budget: Formal education proposed in madrasas, reimbursement of 50% of professional college fee
3 weeks, 4 days ago

Karnataka Budget: Formal education proposed in madrasas, reimbursement of 50% of professional college fee

The Hindu  

Focusing on making higher education affordable to minority students, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has proposed to reimburse 50% of the fees for admissions availed through KEA to professional courses. Presenting the State Budget for 2025-2026, the Chief Minister announced an increase of ₹10 lakh in the amount given to minority students under the National Foreign Student Scholarship. Besides, 100 Urdu …

Uttarakhand's madrasa to offer NCERT curriculum, sanskrit as optional subject
2 months, 1 week ago

Uttarakhand's madrasa to offer NCERT curriculum, sanskrit as optional subject

Hindustan Times  

The Uttarakhand Waqf Board has set up the state's first modern madrasa offering general education under the NCERT curriculum with Sanskrit as an optional subject besides Arabic. Uttarakhand's first modern madrasa to offer NCERT curriculum, sanskrit as optional subject Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Modern Madrasa has been developed by the board at a cost of around ₹50 lakh and will …

Shaheen Group to maintain historic madrasa of Mahmud Gawan in Bidar
7 months ago

Shaheen Group to maintain historic madrasa of Mahmud Gawan in Bidar

The Hindu  

Bidar-based Shaheen Group of Institutions has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Archaeological Survey of India to maintain the historical Mahmud Gawan madrasa, one of the iconic structures of the Bahmani sultanate. Shaheen Group’s Chairman Dr. Abdul Qadeer signed the MoU with ASI Director Zulfequar Ali in New Delhi on August 28 to adopt the structure under the Adopt-a-Heritage …

Madrasa teachers in U.P. stare at bleak future, vow to continue stir as govt. stops honorarium
1 year, 2 months ago

Madrasa teachers in U.P. stare at bleak future, vow to continue stir as govt. stops honorarium

The Hindu  

: As the sun sets over Lucknow’s Eco Garden, Ashraf Ali, who has spent the entire day protesting here, prepares to retire for the night at Charbagh railway station. The background Around 25 years ago, the Centre started a programme named ‘Madrasa Modernisation Scheme’, under which teachers were enrolled to tutor madrasa students in ‘modern’ subjects, such as Mathematics, Science, …

UP Madrasa Board Result 2023 declared, 84.48% students pass
1 year, 8 months ago

UP Madrasa Board Result 2023 declared, 84.48% students pass

Hindustan Times  

The results of Uttar Pradesh Madrasa Education Board 2023 were declared on Thursday. UP Madrasa Board Result 2023 declared, 84.48% students pass In the Munshi/Maulvi examination, Mohammad Nazil of Madrasa Talimul Jadid Noorkhanpur, Bhadohi secured first position in the state, Mohammad Moin of Madrasa Jamia Zikra district Sitapur got second position and Mohammad Irfan,of Madrasa Jamia Zikra district Sitapur bagged …

Why there is a rising need to regularise madrasa system in India
2 years, 6 months ago

Why there is a rising need to regularise madrasa system in India

Firstpost  

Madrasas play an influential role in the thought process of a community, whether political or scientific and the revival cannot take place either by shutting down madrasas or by seeing government as an adversary The Yogi administration in Uttar Pradesh has announced plans to identify all the unrecognised madrasas, or Islamic schools in the state in an attempt to regularise …

Madrasas survey starts in U.P., report to be submitted by October 25
2 years, 6 months ago

Madrasas survey starts in U.P., report to be submitted by October 25

The Hindu  

Amid the ongoing controversy over madrasas in Uttar Pradesh, the State government started the process of conducting a survey of the Islamic education institutions from Saturday. The much-discussed survey of “unrecognised” madrasas will be conducted over the next 25-day period by the District Minority Welfare Officers and their teams across the 78 districts of the State along with the officials …

Only TET-qualified teachers to be part of madrasa education: UP govt
2 years, 8 months ago

Only TET-qualified teachers to be part of madrasa education: UP govt

India Today  

Under the Madrasa Modernisation Scheme of the UP government, the state government now plans to only allow Teacher Eligibility Test qualified teachers to teach at madrasas. As part of this new scheme, 80% modern education and 20% deeni education will be provided. Also, madrasa students themselves were later hired as teachers and 80% of the education provided was deeni education …

'Rs 15 Lakh for Primary, 25 Lakh for Upper Levels': Gehlot Govt to Fulfil Madrasas Upgradation Poll Promise
4 years, 5 months ago

'Rs 15 Lakh for Primary, 25 Lakh for Upper Levels': Gehlot Govt to Fulfil Madrasas Upgradation Poll Promise

News 18  

Aiming at the development of madrasas in Rajasthan, the Gehlot government on Friday announced that it will bear 90 per cent cost of the development while the remaining 10 per cent will be incurred by the madrasa board. An outlay of Rs 15-25 lakh per madrasa has been earmarked by the state government, confirmed officials adding that the Rajasthan government …

Madrasa to mainstream education: Bidar school churns out success stories for Urdu-speaking students
7 years ago

Madrasa to mainstream education: Bidar school churns out success stories for Urdu-speaking students

Firstpost  

Founded on the theory of providing quality education to Urdu-speaking students in their mother tongue, Shaheen is an Urdu medium school that has turned more than 900 students into doctors in the last 15 years. In the academic year 2016-17, a staggering 201 students bagged medical seats in Bidar, of which seven students had done their schooling in Urdu medium. …

No intention of disturbing madrassa course structure: UP government
7 years, 4 months ago

No intention of disturbing madrassa course structure: UP government

Live Mint  

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government on Sunday sought to allay fears that introduction of NCERT books in madrassas in the state will disturb the course structure of the Islamic educational institutions. “The Uttar Pradesh government has no intention of disturbing the course structure of the madrassas or change them. The basic aim is an attempt to integrate madrassa education with …

In Bidar, it’s a short hop from madrasas to science labs
7 years, 6 months ago

In Bidar, it’s a short hop from madrasas to science labs

The Hindu  

Looking like a doctor in a Hindi movie, Abu Sofyan can offer both — Dawa and Dua to his future patients. But, the ‘disciplined madrasa life’ helped him get good grades in pre- university and a medical college seat. Hundreds of madrasa graduates are in mainstream colleges now, thanks to a project of Allama Iqbal Education Society, which runs the …

Hyderabad madrasas magnets for students from North
7 years, 8 months ago

Hyderabad madrasas magnets for students from North

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Islamic seminaries, or Madrasas in Urdu, offering religious and basic modern education in the city are attracting thousands of students from north and central India for their quality education. In all, close to 1.5 lakh students are studying in some 1,200 madrasas in the state, with around 12,000 new enrolments every year. The other reason is, the teachers here …

Thinking Allowed: Mislabelling madrasas
9 years, 8 months ago

Thinking Allowed: Mislabelling madrasas

Deccan Chronicle  

As you sit reading this, diligent officers of the Maharashtra government are scurrying about counting students in the informal sector. That labelling madrasas as irrelevant, brushing off their students as uneducated children who do not go to school, implying that studying the Quran is no study at all and refusing to acknowledge that madrasas impart education, unless they teach certain …

Maharashtra Govt okays Rs 10 cr for modernisation of madrassas
11 years, 6 months ago

Maharashtra Govt okays Rs 10 cr for modernisation of madrassas

India TV News  

Mumbai: In a major decision ahead of assembly elections, Maharashtra Cabinet today approved a proposal by the Minorities department for allocation of funds to modernise madrassas in the state. “The Cabinet approved allocation of Rs 10 crore for the ongoing academic year,” Minorities Development minister Naseem Khan told reporters here after the cabinet meeting.Around two lakh students study in madrassas …

Madrasa uplift project repackaged
16 years, 11 months ago

Madrasa uplift project repackaged

Hindustan Times  

What's in a name? The madrasa modernisation programme of the 11th Five Year Plan, which continues the initiative of the Ninth Plan, will now wrap around itself a new cover. HRD minister Arjun Singh feels it would be better if the programme is instead called Scheme for Providing Quality Education in Madrasas,” says director, Minority Cell, Hamidullah Bhat. The naming …

Course correction at madrasas running into resource crunch
17 years, 1 month ago

Course correction at madrasas running into resource crunch

Live Mint  

Mumbai: When 12-year-old Muhammad Imran’s widowed mother did not have money to feed her son, she put him on a train from her village in Uttar Pradesh to Mumbai’s Minara Masjid madrasa. “Our children have been left behind because they are not equipped for the outside world,” said Zahir-ud-din Khan, principal at Minara Masjid’s school for 46 years. “We want …

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