Amid the ongoing controversy over madrasas in Uttar Pradesh, the State government started the process of conducting a survey of the Islamic education institutions from Saturday.
The much-discussed survey of “unrecognised” madrasas will be conducted over the next 25-day period by the District Minority Welfare Officers and their teams across the 78 districts of the State along with the officials of the Education Department.
“Survey of madrasas to start today. We will analyse whether survey teams have been formed in all districts. Our aim is to bring these institutions into the mainstream and produce IAS and IPS [officers], engineers and doctors; hence the teaching of Mathematics, English, Hindi and Social Sciences are also necessary,” said Dharmpal Singh, the State’s Minister for Minority Welfare, Waqf and the Haj Department.
