"..State funding to Madrasas be stopped..", NCPCR writes to Indian states
NCPCR chief Priyank Kanoongo has written to Chief Secretaries/Administrators of all States/UTs regarding the Commission's report 'Guardians of Faith or Oppressors of Rights: Constitutional Rights of Children vs. Madrasas'
The letter reads, "It has been recommended that State funding to the Madrasas and Madrasa Boards be stopped across all States/UTs and Madrasa Boards should be discontinued and closed down...It has also been recommended that all non-muslim children be taken out of Madrasas and admitted in schools for receiving fundamental education as per the RTE Act, 2009. Also, children from Muslim community who are attending Madrasa, whether recognized or unrecognized, are enrolled in formal schools and received education of the prescribed time and curriculum as per the RTE Act, 2009."
NCPCR chief Priyank Kanoongo says, " Commission has released its final report after studying this issue for 9 years. We have found that around 1.25 crore children are deprived of their basic education rights. They are being tutored in such a way that they would work according to the motives of certain people, this is wrong. The people who have captured these Madrasas are those who used to say that they wanted to preach Islam across India during India-Pakistan partition. There are Madrasa boards in 7-8 states and we have asked to shut the Madrasa boards because they filed to serve the purpose...donations are being raised for Madrasas. This funding should be stopped and Madrasa Board must be disbanded and the Hindu children who are studying in these Madrasas must be enrolled in Schools".