All madrassas in Assam will soon need to upload their locations, names and addresses of teachers, and other details, on a web portal designed to monitor them and prevent them from being misused for “jihadi” activities.
The State’s Director General of Police (DGP), Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta, said a decision to come up with a portal for maintaining a database of an estimated 1,000 madrassas in Assam was taken after a meeting with some Muslim MLAs and the representatives of four Islamic organisations on September 4.
These organisations — Assam State Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, All Assam Tanzim Madaris Qaumia, Jamiat-e-Ahle Hadith, and Ahle Sunnat Wal Jammat — run a majority of the madrassas in the State.
