TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 2005 12:22:45 AM ]
Sign into earnIndiatimes points LUCKNOW: Numbers unfortunately deal severe blows to popular images. Chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav would know it too well as his image of 'Maulana' took a beating as the report card was read out. Sample this: registered madarasas in Bihar and MP - 3700 and 3000 respectively, according to union government's statistic. Uttar Pradesh, which under the present regime claims to be the champion of the minority's cause, has a paltry 1100.
Factually however the total number of madarsas in the state are much more than 16,000 but most don't want to get registered and enjoy government's patronage. So far the Mulayam government could do little to convince them. Union state minister for HRD MM Fatimi, exposed the failure of the government during his recent visit. Embarrassed enough, the government now is going all out to rope in the reluctant madrasas in the mainstream Education for All (EFA) project. Attractively illustrated text books in Urdu, teaching and learning material (TLM) and a concerted campaign by religious figures promoting it's agenda, the mission is to woo the minority institutions for EFA project this year. The department of Minority Welfare and Waqf has in collaboration with the UNICEF has already begun taken up the job of "jazzing up the textbooks" says Mohammed Mustafa . "The agency has offered to prepare mathematics and science kits, rework and illustrate all text books and also provide TLM to support the project at the "Tahtaniya" ( primary ) level", the official told the TNN on Tuesday. The books should be ready by next month Mustafa claimed, after a scrutiny by a select team of officials and their final clearance.
The government also plans a massive awareness drive to enlist public support to the venture. Already the Board with the help of state primary education department, proposes to hold a meeting with the select prominent opinion makers from the minority community from key districts like Azamgarh, Saharan pur, Muzaffarnagar, Moradabad, Ghazipur, Mau, Rai- Bareli and Lucknow and to win over their confidence .
Mulayam government had passed the Madrasas Education Act in September 2004. The act proposes to set up board of Madrasas education for improving the standards of these institutes and to ensure their smooth functioning.
While the body , could take a little while to come into existence the initiative by the government has come as a big incentive to the Madrasas that were regarded with suspicion and were totally cut off during the former regimes sources confide.
If successful, the move could lead to a big boost to the EFA says secretary JS Deepak even as Mustafa hopes that the efforts will prove to be successful long last.
Sign into earnIndiatimes points LUCKNOW: Numbers unfortunately deal severe blows to popular images. Chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav would know it too well as his image of 'Maulana' took a beating as the report card was read out. Sample this: registered madarasas in Bihar and MP - 3700 and 3000 respectively, according to union government's statistic. Uttar Pradesh, which under the present regime claims to be the champion of the minority's cause, has a paltry 1100.
Factually however the total number of madarsas in the state are much more than 16,000 but most don't want to get registered and enjoy government's patronage. So far the Mulayam government could do little to convince them. Union state minister for HRD MM Fatimi, exposed the failure of the government during his recent visit. Embarrassed enough, the government now is going all out to rope in the reluctant madrasas in the mainstream Education for All (EFA) project. Attractively illustrated text books in Urdu, teaching and learning material (TLM) and a concerted campaign by religious figures promoting it's agenda, the mission is to woo the minority institutions for EFA project this year. The department of Minority Welfare and Waqf has in collaboration with the UNICEF has already begun taken up the job of "jazzing up the textbooks" says Mohammed Mustafa . "The agency has offered to prepare mathematics and science kits, rework and illustrate all text books and also provide TLM to support the project at the "Tahtaniya" ( primary ) level", the official told the TNN on Tuesday. The books should be ready by next month Mustafa claimed, after a scrutiny by a select team of officials and their final clearance.
The government also plans a massive awareness drive to enlist public support to the venture. Already the Board with the help of state primary education department, proposes to hold a meeting with the select prominent opinion makers from the minority community from key districts like Azamgarh, Saharan pur, Muzaffarnagar, Moradabad, Ghazipur, Mau, Rai- Bareli and Lucknow and to win over their confidence .
Mulayam government had passed the Madrasas Education Act in September 2004. The act proposes to set up board of Madrasas education for improving the standards of these institutes and to ensure their smooth functioning.
While the body , could take a little while to come into existence the initiative by the government has come as a big incentive to the Madrasas that were regarded with suspicion and were totally cut off during the former regimes sources confide.
If successful, the move could lead to a big boost to the EFA says secretary JS Deepak even as Mustafa hopes that the efforts will prove to be successful long last.
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