Waqf Board reports that Uttarakhand madrassas will teach Sanskrit

State will now teach Sanskrit according to the NCERT curriculum

The 117 madrassas in the state will now teach Sanskrit according to the NCERT curriculum, as decided by the Uttarakhand Waqf Board. According to a report in The Indian Express, pupils will now be able to study Arabic and Sanskrit in madrasas in addition to English. Shadab Shams, head of the Waqf Board, asserted that the curriculum will incorporate both scientific understanding and Islamic studies.

Shadab Shams, the chairman of the board, thinks that this action is essential for the student’s future because it will provide them with the freedom to leave the traditional boundaries of madrassa education and meet the challenges of the contemporary world.

Additionally, he sees this program as a chance for young people to gain inspiration from people like former president A P J Abdul Kalam.

Shams expressed appreciation for Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami’s assistance in putting the required plans in place to ensure that these kids’ educations will be supported.

Shams quoted to The Indian Express, “The people of Devbhoomi are different from others. If our language, culture, and traditions are different from others, then our education pattern should also be different from others. Our children should learn our languages and prioritise that. We will appoint Sanskrit Acharyas and Arabic teachers in our madrasas so that we can teach both languages. Our children will speak Sanskrit, Arabic and English too.”

Shams, who was elected head of the Uttarakhand Waqf Board in 2022, has been a proponent of contemporary education at madrassas and thinks that this project supports Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s goal of madrassa-attending children holding the Quran in one hand and a laptop in the other.

Dress code in School

All madrasas run by the Waqf Board will have a uniform dress code and courses will run from 8 am to 2 pm, much like other schools, according to an announcement made by Shams in November of last year. Additionally, he stated that a committee would be formed by the Uttarakhand government to inspect every madrasa in the state.

117 madrasas are under the supervision of the Uttarakhand Waqf Board. The board will convert four of these, one in each of the districts of Dehradun, Haridwar, Udham Singh Nagar, and Nainital, into model madrasas in the first phase.

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