NEW DELHI, Oct 10 - Jamaat-e-Islami Hind�s Education Board (Markazi Taleemi Board) has condemned the Assam Education Minister�s decision to shut down all the government-run madrassas and ceasing their funding from next month.
Markazi Taleemi Board Chairman Nusrat Ali said the decision runs contrary to the government�s �talks� about making universalisation of education and connecting the socially and educationally backward classes with education under the National Education Policy.
Calling the Assam government�s move as reprehensible, Nusrat Ali has cautioned the State that the decision not only will lead to discontinuation of education of thousands of students studying in madrassas but also it will leave teachers and staff jobless.
�The National Commission for Minorities, the Union education ministry and the Ministry of Minority Affairs should take note of this decision of the Assam government.�
Demanding the Assam government to take back the decision, Nusrat Ali asserted that the Jamaat�s education board would pursue all democratic and legal means for maintaining madrassas� financial support. �The present government has now taken the decision to target a particular community for achieving political goals,� he added.
