Uttar Pradesh Board of Madrasas has started preparations to provide modern education along with religious instruction, said Iftikhar Ahmed Javed, Madrasa Education Council Chairman on Monday.
The weekly holiday in madrasas of Uttar Pradesh will continue to be on Fridays as per the holiday calendar for the year 2023 that has been released by the State Madrasa Education Board.The suggestion to change the weekly off from Friday to .
Cracking down on fake madrasas in Uttar Pradesh, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) submitted its report to the government citing 219 fake madrasas in Azamgarh some of which had allegedly received state grants in the name of modernisation.
Uttar Pradesh madrasas news: Information about 306 illegal madrasas that were traced was sent to Administration. Darul Uloom Deoband is also an illegal madrasa and is deprived of scholarships & other schemes, Bharat Lal Gond, District Minority Welfare Officer said.
Iftikhar Ahmed Javed, Chairman, of the Uttar Pradesh Board of Madrassa Education, has said that the process to identify the actual numbers will still take time, but we have estimated around 7,500 unrecognised madrassas which were surveyed by teams in 75 districts.