Lucknow / Oct 25, 2020
With online education and digital classes becoming the new normal post covid-19, the Uttar Pradesh government is planning to introduce online/digital learning in the state’s madarsas as well.
Madarsas are minority educational institutions, primarily offering study in Islamic theology and religious law. Currently, there are about 19,000 recognised and 560 aided madarsas functional in UP.
The state minorities department is in the process of developing a specialised mobile app to cater to both the Islamic theology and the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) syllabuses followed in the state madarsas.
The app will be developed by UP Development Systems Corporation Limited (UPDESCO), which is a state government agency under the department of IT and electronics.
UP minorities, waqf and haj minister Nand Gopal Nandi has already mandated the minorities welfare department and UPDESCO to initiate the process of conceptualising and developing the mobile app, so that the madarsa students could also receive education through the online/digital mode like their counterparts in other academic systems.
Meanwhile, the proposed mobile app, which will provide a gateway to the NCERT books, will largely benefit the unaided madarsas, while the students will not have to scurry for their study material in physical forms.
Last year, the aided madarsas in UP were provided free NCERT books, while the non-aided madarsas could not avail of the benefit. The mobile app will provide a link to the madarsa portal while also linking all the madarsas operating in UP for greater traction and benefit of the students and teachers.
Earlier, UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath had issued directives for improving the quality of education in madarsas and introducing curriculum based on the NCERT pattern.
In fact, he had even instructed for raising the qualification/eligibility criteria for the madarsa teachers and making the recruitment process transparent. He also stressed on an efficient distribution of scholarships to minority students, so that more pupils could be covered under the scheme.
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