Feb 04, 2025 10:03 PM IST
In a letter dated January 16, 2025, UP Madrasa Board registrar RP Singh directed all district minority welfare officers to implement the Supreme Court docket’s orders, ceasing Kamil and Fazil lessons.
The Uttar Pradesh Madrasa Board has ordered a direct halt to Kamil (Graduate) and Fazil (Publish Graduate) programs throughout the state’s madrasas, following the Supreme Court docket’s ruling that deemed these levels unconstitutional. The court docket held that madrasas can not confer increased training levels, because it violates the College Grants Fee (UGC) Act.
On November 5, 2024, the Supreme Court docket held that madrasas can not confer increased training levels, because it violates the College Grants Fee (UGC) Act. (Sourced)
This determination has left round 37,000 college students—28,000 enrolled in Kamil (first, second and third 12 months) and 9,000 in Fazil (first and second 12 months)—unsure about their educational future. Whereas new admissions to those programs have already been stopped, the destiny of present college students stays undecided.
In a letter dated January 16, 2025, UP Madrasa Board registrar RP Singh directed all district minority welfare officers to implement the Supreme Court docket’s orders, ceasing Kamil and Fazil lessons. Nonetheless, no different plan has been outlined for affected college students.
Famend Sunni cleric and All India Muslim Private Regulation Board member Maulana Khalid Rasheed Farangi Mahali urged the federal government and the Madrasa Board to discover a authorized decision. “While the Supreme Court’s order must be followed, 37,000 students are now unable to sit for exams, raising serious concerns about their future. Affiliation with Arbi Farsi University could be a viable solution,” he recommended.
Former UP Madrasa Board chairman Iftikhar Ahmed Javed criticised the transfer as “shameful,” arguing that college students from economically weaker backgrounds would undergo probably the most. “The board should have ensured an alternative before issuing such an order. I had sought Arbi Farsi University’s affiliation for madrasas during my tenure, but no action was taken,” he stated.
On November 5, 2024, the Supreme Court docket overturned the Allahabad excessive court docket’s March ruling that had declared the Uttar Pradesh Board of Madrasa Schooling Act, 2004, unconstitutional. A bench led by then Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra underscored the state authorities’s accountability to align madrasa training with fashionable educational requirements. The court docket additionally directed the Uttar Pradesh authorities to relocate college students to different academic establishments.
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