129 Musli, girl students who were studying in a Madarasa were got enrolled into a Zilla Parishad Urdu school at Dahifal in Shevgaon Taluka of Ahmednagar district.
Zilla Parishad officials, along with enthusiastic teachers, convinced the Maulana to send the girls to the school. “It was a great achievement for us since we were trying to convince Maulana Sayyad Nasir for almost six months to send the girls for formal education, along with the religious education,” said Ganpat Daspute, an innovative and progressive teacher from Shevgaon.
The Zilla Parishad chief executive officer announced that he would be implementing the schemes for the minority students effectively and will also adopt all these girls till completion of their education.
“As the world is inching towards technology, it is obligatory to get formal education along with religious education. Because then only one can be a part of this technical world”, said ZP officer.
According to Raul the idea was to bring the Muslim girls into mainstream education and the madarasa would work as their hostel. He said that the girls would be with ZP school between 9am and 5pm and will avail all the benefits, including midday meal scheme and other facilities.
According to Maulana Sayad Nasir, most of the girls come from the economically weaker section and some of the girls have lost either of the parents.
He informed that he was initially not convinced since the distance between the madarasa and the school is 3km, but the arrangement has been done now. The primary teachers have come together to pay for the vehicle, which would bring the girls from madarasa to the Urdu school.