A notice has been issued by Uttar Pradesh’s basic education department which states that any madrasas found operating without registration will have to pay a penalty of rupees 10,000 per day. This notice has been issued in Muzaffarnagar. An officer of the basic education department issued the notice to over a dozen madrasas operating without proper registration and they were also asked to produce relevant documents.
Out of 24,000 madrasas in Uttar Pradesh, 16,000 are recognised whereas the other 8,000 are unrecognised, according to official data.
A window of three days has been given to the madrasas who were issued notices to produce relevant documents, failure of which will lead to facing consequences according to the rules.
The notice read “If the madrasas are found operating without recognition, they will be fined rupees 10,000 per day.”
The head of education in Muzaffarnagar, Muzaffarnagar Basic Shiksha Adhikari Shubham Shukla, informed that over a hundred madrasas in the area are running without the proper paperwork, going against the rules.
The Indian Muslim organization, Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, strongly objected to the notice sent to the madrasas, labeling the education department’s directive as “against the law.”
Maulana Zakir Husain, the bigwig at Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, lashed out and said that the order is ‘unlawful’.
Maulana Zakir Husain, the secretary of the Uttar Pradesh division of Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, claimed that the madrasas in the region are facing undue pressure through these unlawful notices, seemingly aimed at singling out a specific community.
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