'Karnataka govt directs education department to submit report on activities of madrasas'

BJP insiders said the report would decide whether the madrasas should be brought under the jurisdiction of the education department, sources said.

TN National Desk

Updated Sep 30, 2022, 17:57 IST

Madrasas

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Bengaluru: The Basavaraj Bommai government in Karnataka has asked the education department to submit a report on the activities of madrasas in the state, reports said on Friday. Interestingly, the exercise has been undertaken amid the demands to ban madrasas in the state by Hindu organisations.

The BJP government in Karnataka has asked the education department to submit report about 960 madrasas in the state.

IANS quoted BJP insiders said the report would decide whether the madrasas should be brought under the jurisdiction of the education department.

Reports stated that the Karnataka government is mulling action on madrasas on the lines of Uttar Pradesh government led by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.

The UP government has started a survey of 'unrecognised' madrasas in the state.

The Adityanath government has justified the move saying that the exercise is aimed at streamlining private religious seminaries so that students there could learn science and computers.

As per the records, there are 16,461 theological schools in Uttar Pradesh, out of which 560 are registered with the government and getting financial assistance.

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi vociferously criticised the decision to survey the unrecognised madarsas and described the exercise as "mini NRC" (National Register of Citizenship).

Reacting to the survey order, BSP supremo Mayawati said the BJP government was trying to interfere in the internal matters of the seminaries with an intention to "terrorise" Muslims.

UP's Minister of State for Minority Affairs Danish Azad Ansari assured the Muslims that the "purpose of the survey is to know the actual condition of the madrassas and help these in lifting their standard."

"Relevant papers and forms regarding schemes for minority communities will be made available to them during the survey so that welfare schemes reach villages and towns deprived of them till now," Ansari said.

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