Hyderabad: (MANUU) Maulana Azad National Urdu University and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) have joined hands to empower madrasa students in Bihar.
Under the Adolescent Education Program (AEP), students of madrasas in Bihar will be supported in procuring technical, scientific, and social skills.
The Bihar State Madrasa Board and Jamia Millia Islamia are other partners in the program.
The introduction of the state-level training for the AEP was conducted in Patna on Wednesday. More than 84 master trainers and facilitators from 12 districts of Bihar went to the program.
The pilot was launched in the previous year in two districts of Purnia and Katihar and after its successful implementation, the Bihar government chose to grow AEP to the entire state. The selected master trainers and facilitators are going through training from November 18 to 24 at the Youth Hostel in Patna.
Abdul Qayyum Ansari, Chairman, Bihar State Madrasa Board stated that AEP is an ideal program that will make way for the young generation to create critical thinking and become responsible individuals. The program will also assist them in adapting to modern requirements.
Program Director, Prof. Mohd Shahid of the MANUU expressed that the program will help students not exclusively to equip themselves with the current day requirements but additionally procure technical, scientific, and social skills to have a successful life.
Dr Nadeem Noor of the UNFPA stated that farsightedness is needed to be a part of the inevitable change. For this we need to plan ourselves so that the dream of a bright and radiant future can be achieved, he added.
(UNFPA) Joined Nations Population Fund in an alliance with Bihar State Madarsa Education Board and Department of Education, Government of Bihar started Adolescence Education Program (AEP) in Madarsas of Bihar.
AEP focuses on the capacity building, training, and lifelong learning of youngsters studying at Wastania level(classes 6-8) Madrasas.
The project puts in all its efforts to reach all the Wastania level Madrasas in the Purnia division of Bihar
