Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 13: The creation of Madrasa Board in every state is a national policy and its formation in the State is under active consideration of the Government on which J&K State Wakf Council is actively working.
This information was given by the Minister for Haj, Auqaf and Floriculture, Peerzada Mohammad Sayeed while replying to a question of Dr. Bashir Ahmad Veeri in the Legislative Council today.
Peerzada said that the Wakf Board is maintaining the specified Wakfs and Wakf properties shown in the J&K, Board for Specified Wakf and Specified Wakf Properties Act 2004. He said that the organization has already some educational institutions including Madrasas, which are financed by Wakf Board, where basic Quranic education is provided to the students.
The Minister further informed that a Committee has already been constituted which would visit UP and Bihar State and submit a comprehensive and detailed proposal for establishment of Muslim Madrasa Board in the State on the pattern of Madrasa Boards of these States.
Jehangir Husssain Mir, Khalid Najeeb Suhrawardy, Ghulam Qadir Pardesi, Dr. Shehnaz Ganai and Sheikh Ghulam Rasool raised supplementaries on the question.
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