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Over 2.5 lakh madrasa students will be imparted online education through smartphones from the next academic session. It has been made possible with the efforts by the state government to modernise and reform the madrasa education and synchronise it with the mainstream education system.
UP Madrasa Board member Zirgamuddin said a proposal to develop a mobile app has been approved and after the declaration of board exam results, its work would be taken up. He said the board would make all possible efforts and arrangements so that students could study through the mobile app from the upcoming session.
Zirgamuddin said there are around 558 government-aided and about 17,000 private madrasas operating in the state with more than 2.5 lakh students. The UP government is constantly making efforts to provide better education to these students. The work of providing online education in madrasas has been started in this session. Keeping in view the ongoing pandemic, the state government is also conducting training of madrasa teachers to make them more adept at the online mode of teaching. The board was planning to start online education from this session itself but it was delayed due to Covid.
Uttar Pradesh State Language Committee member Danish Azad said that online training programmes are being organised for teachers in collaboration with the UP Madrasa Board. In the first phase, a 15-day training programme was conducted and teachers of IITs, IIMs and various universities imparted training to more than 1,000 madrasa teachers. In the second phase, the remaining teachers will be trained.
In the four-year tenure, the Yogi Adityanath government has been working on reforming the madrasa education system. In order to provide better education to the madrasa students, the Yogi government has introduced NCERT syllabus for madrasas to enable the students to participate in competitive examinations and bring the curriculum at par with the mainstream education.
To uplift the standard of education in madrasas, an amount of Rs 479 crore has been provided for the current fiscal 2021-22.
Azad said that in order to provide relief to madrasa students, the syllabus has been reduced. Earlier, the students had to study 12 to 15 books but now they have only 7 to 8 books in total. The papers which used to be lengthy have been shortened as they have been divided into sections.