All India Muslim Majlis e Mushawarat submission to the President of of India, interference in the activities of madrasas is against the constitution and law, please don’t allow the constitutional rights of Muslims, religious freedom, educational autonomy and comprehensive development to be violated, most children studying in madrasas belongs to the families live under poverty line and madrasas provide them education without any cost and discrimination, UP government is spreading sensation by counting non-formal part-time learning centers as Madrasahs
New Delhi: In a letter addressed to the President of India, Draupadi Murmu, the All India Muslim Majlis e Mushawarat, the only confederation of Muslim organizations and personalities of eminence, has condemned the hostile actions of the government of Uttar Pradesh for harassing religious educational institutions in the state, sending madrassa children to schools and expelling non-Muslim children from madrassas. Expressing serious concern, AIMMM has requested them that interfering in the activities of madrasas is against the constitution and law, please do not allow the constitutional rights of Muslims, religious freedom, educational autonomy and comprehensive development to be violated. AIMM also requested the President of India that most of the children admitted here in Madrasahs are those who live below the poverty line and Madrasahs are centers of free education, food and accommodation.
The Confederation of Muslim organizations pointed the Constitution guarantees religious and linguistic minorities to establish and run educational institutions of their choice, the Right to Education Act obliges the Center and the states to provide quality education in educational institutions of their choice and religious institutions are protected in this law. It says that these Madrasahs bear the burden of educating more than one crore children across the country and lakhs of them in the state of UP. More than one report of the central government’s Scheme for Providing Quality Education in Madrasas [SPQEM] has found that children’s attendance is higher here than in government schools and that Madrasah teachers are more punctual, responsible and attentive to students. The submission emphasizes “the number of students admitted to madrassas are not only from BPL families but also because of the absence of government primary schools in the nearby neighborhoods. Similarly, thousands of Muslim and other religion children study in Vedic Pathshalas, Shishu Mandir and Christian missionary schools. Only targeting Madrasahs is exposing the intention. The attention of the President has been sought on religious freedom, educational autonomy and comprehensive development and pointed that the condition of the education system in the state is very poor, more than 100 Shiksha-mitras have committed suicide due to non-payment and discouragement of madrassas will have a very bad effects on the state of education in the state.
It should be clear that many other state governments of BJP are doing also this kind of arbitrariness, which causes deep concern and unrest in society. This petition asserts that the Uttar Pradesh government is spreading sensation by counting non-formal part-time learning centers as Madrasahs. It should be noted that in the list of more than 8,000 unapproved madrasahs that the UP government has released, many private tuition accommodations, part-time learning centers established inside mosques or elsewhere have also been included, even by their operators or the mosque administration didn’t name it.