Science, math to be taught in madrassas to make 'officers' not 'Maulvis' out of students

Varanasi (UP): Following the prime minister Modi’s vision of ‘Quran in one hand and laptop in the other’, government of Uttar Pradesh is planning to teach mathematics and science among other subjects to Madrassa students, cabinet minister Dharampal affirmed on Tuesday, adding that the initiative will help students become ‘officers’ instead of ‘maulvis.

The minorities welfare minister also said schools and hospitals will be built by vacating land belonging to the Waqf board, which is currently under illegal occupation.

“Madrassa students will be taught mathematics, general science, social science, Hindi and other subjects so that they can join the Indian Administrative Service and Provincial Civil Services or become engineers and doctors instead of becoming maulvis (clerics) by obtaining ‘deen’ (religious) teachings,” he told reporters after a departmental review meeting in Varanasi.

Lavishing praise on Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Dharampal said he was turning Uttar Pradesh into “Uttam (better) Pradesh” as envisaged by the prime minister.

The minister said considerable tracts of land belonging to the Waqf board had been illegally occupied, but assured that it will be vacated and used to build schools, hospitals and parks.

The government also has plans to set up one “govansh sthal” (cowshed), capable of accommodating 2,000 to 4,000 cattle, in each of the Assembly constituencies, he said.

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