Child Rights Panel Asks States to Stop Funding, Shut down Madrasas Board
Abhinaya Harigovind | 13 October 2024 | The Indian Express
The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has written to the chief secretaries of all States and Union territories recommending that madrasa boards be “discontinued and closed down”, State funding to madrasas and madrasa boards be stopped, and children attending madrasas be enrolled in “formal schools.”
While Congress said it would comment after reading the letter, the party’s Cabinet Minister for Electronics, IT, Biotech, Rural Development and Panchayati Raj in Karnataka, said, a commission should ideally give remedies than to ask states to stop funding and shut down madrasas. “And it is so ironic to see this development days after Maharashtra government decide to triple the salaries of madrasa teachers,” he told The Indian Express…