West Bengal to recognise 10,000 madrasas

Kolkata: The West Bengal government will give recognition to around 10,000 madrasas, the Islamic seminaris, under the state madrasa education board, enabling them to seek central funds for upgradation, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said Friday.

"There are around 10,000 madrasas across the state which were not recognised by the previous Left Front government as it could not provide them financial support. We have decided to recognise the schools without taking any financial liabilities of the school," said Banerjee.

"For recognising the madrasas, the government needs to give financial support, which is not possible now because of the poor financial condition of the state exchequer. And as the schools are not recognised, they cannot apply for any central funds. So we have decided to recognise all the unrecognised madrasas enabling them to seek central funds," she added.




 

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