The NCPCR has recommended that states and Union territories draw funding to Madrasa Boards and eventually close it.
Chairman NCPCR Priyank Kanoongo further recommended in a letter to the Chief Secretaries of States and Union Territories that non-Muslim children already enrolled in madrasas should be shifted to mainstream schools conforming to the RTE Act of 2009.
The recommendations are based on a comprehensive report prepared after studying the educational conditions of children from the Muslim community.
According to Kanoongo, it is this report that will act as a road map for the safe and fruit-bearing upbringing of all children in India, therefore facilitating national development at large.
The report is designed with the motive of guiding us toward constructing an all-inclusive road map that should ensure all children in the country bring up in a safe, healthy, and productive environment. Subsequently, they will be empowered to contribute meaningfully to the nation-building process in a more holistic and impactful way, the letter said.
Discussing with IANS, Priyank Kanoongo said that the Commission has been researching this issue for nine years and meticulously studied how children belonging to the Muslim community are being denied education in schools due to Madrasas and explained violations of their rights. We have written a letter to the Chief Secretaries in the respective states requesting them to close the Madrasa Boards. These Madrasa Boards have failed to serve the purpose for which they were established. "
At present, more than 1.25 crore children are in madrasas who do not have any link with the Madrasa Boards. The Madrasa Boards are just taking the funds from the government while providing shelter to 1.9 million to 2 million children, including those who belong to another religion, Hindu children so that the feeling of providing education support is given," he further told IANS.
The NCPCR is established under the Commission for Protection of Child Rights Act 2005 for the protection of the rights of children in all states and union territories of India.
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