Lucknow. The Uttar Pradesh Madrasa Education Council will soon send a revised proposal to the government for changes in the madrassa regulations to improve madrasas and teach modern subjects. Earlier on Tuesday, the board held a meeting with the stakeholders and took their suggestions. After considering these suggestions, the Board will prepare a revised proposal. Madarsa Board President Dr. Iftikhar Ahmed Javed informed that the first meeting with stakeholders has been held on Tuesday, similarly there will be more meetings with subject experts and departmental officers.
Suggestions will be received from them. He said that in order to connect the madrasa students with the mainstream of the nation, teachers have to be appointed to teach modern subjects along with the teaching of diniyat in madrasas. Madrasa Board wants to conduct MTET (Madrasa Teacher Eligibility Test) on the lines of TET (Teacher Eligibility Test) for the recruitment of qualified teachers. For this, necessary amendments have to be made in the Uttar Pradesh Non-Government Arabic and Persian Madrasa Recognition and Administration Service Regulations-2016.
Before amending the regulations, the National General Secretary of All India Teachers Association Madarise Arabia, Wahidullah Khan Saeedi, said that Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit subjects are oriental languages whose teachers are employed, teachers should be arranged for modern subjects. Tariq Shamshi, the principal of a madrasa in Etawah, said that the madrassa has been established for the protection of oriental languages. At present there is a need of quality education. Dr. Ashfaq Ahmed, the manager of a madrasa located in Prayagraj, said that no change should be made in the qualification of the principal.
Haseeb Ahmed, president of the non-teaching employees union, proposed to make provision for disciplinary action in the regulations. Khwaja Faizi Yunus, director of Iram Educational Society, talked about the arrangement of dress code in madrasas. Madarsa Board Registrar Jagmohan Singh said that soon after considering all the suggestions, the proposal approved by the council would be sent to the government.
Madrasa modernization teachers protested: Madrasa modernization teachers have opposed the meeting called to amend the madrasa regulations. National President of Islamic Madrasa Modernization Teachers Association Ejaz Ahmed said that no representative of 25 thousand madrassa modernization teachers in the state was invited to the meeting and behaved step-motherly. At the same time, the Chairman of the Madrasa Board said that since the service conditions of Madrasa modernization teachers are decided by the guidelines of the Central Government, they were not called in this meeting. A separate meeting will be held with these teachers.