Over one lakh students studying in 558 government-aided madrasas will soon get uniforms. “Efforts are on to provide them the uniform in July this year,” said the chairman of UP State Madrasa Education Board, Dr. Iftikhar Ahmed Javed.
He said, in January this year, two important decisions were taken during the board meeting. The first was to implement the NCERT syllabus in a phased manner in madrasas and the second was to remove obstacles coming in the way of distributing dresses to madrasa students.
At present, each student of state-run schools is getting Rs 1,200 for uniforms in the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) account.
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“Efforts are being made to provide the madrasa students Rs 1,200 in their accounts for the uniform as soon as the proposal sent to the government is accepted. However, no dress code for the madrasa has been finalized. The madrasas will be free to choose the dress like ‘kurta pajama’ for male students and ‘salwar-kurta’ for girl students,” said Dr. Iftikhar.
He further said, “Currently, there are over 25,000 madrasas in the state, over 16,513 are recognized by the UP Board of Madrasa Education. Of these, 558 are government-aided while others are only affiliated with the Madrasa Education Board.
“Over 19 lakh students are enrolled at these recognized madrasas. Around 7 lakh students are studying in around 8,500 unrecognized madrasas of the state while over one lakh students study in 558 aided madrasas of the state and they would be getting the dress.”
Iftikhar Ahmed Javed said that the textbooks of the Basic Education Council had been made available free of cost to the students of Class 1 to Class 8 of aided madrasas.
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