Ludhiana, Dec 19: The madrassas, known for imparting religious and moral education to children will now start imparting technical education. This was disclosed by Maulana Isa Mansuri, Chairman, World Islamic Forum, during his maiden visit to the city.
Mansuri who came from UK, said, “The Muslims in India are lagging behind in literacy because the Indian Muslims did not get justice from the Central government as far as educational facilities are concerned. In the last 60 years, none of the governments at the centre ever tried to pay heed to the basic requirement of education to the Indian Muslims. This has also been said in the Sachhar Committee report. “
Mansuri, who is visiting the historic Jama Masjid along with Maulana Yaqoob Bulandshehri, chairman of All India Dini Madrassa Board, said, “We are also starting technical education in the madrassas.
To start with, we inaugurated a computer centre yesterday at Saharanpur in Marif Quran madrassa and also at a madrassa which educates girls in the same city. “
He said, “We will travel across 15 states of India with a mission to identify the difficulties being faced by the Muslims in getting educated and will submit a report to the the UPA government, which has shown intent raise literacy levels of the Muslims. There are more than 1 lakh madrassas in India.”
He said, “The European media links madrassas with terrorism, which is not true. ”’
Shahi Imam of Punjab, Maulana Habib-ur-Rehman Sani Ludhianavi, said, “We are also going to uplift the standard of ther madrassa being run at Jama Masjid under Al Habib Charitable Trust. We have 120 students here.
From coming session, we will will also impart education to these children up to class V in accordance with the syllabus prepared by Punjab School Education Board, Mohali, and will later extend it to class X. A computer centre is also being opened for these children shortly.”
–Agencies