Madrasas unfit for ‘proper education’: Child rights body tells Supreme Court
The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights also claimed that madrasas did not qualify as ‘schools’ under the Right to Education Act.
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The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has told the Supreme Court that madrasas are “unsuitable or unfit” places for children to receive “proper education”, reported Live Law on Wednesday.
The child rights body also claimed that madrasas did not qualify as “schools” under the Right to Education Act.
“A madrasa is not only an unsuitable or unfit place to receive ‘proper’ education but also in absence of entitlements as provided under…the Right to Education Act,” the agency told the court.
This came in response to a plea challenging the Allahabad High Court’s March 22 decision to strike down the Uttar Pradesh Board of Madarsa Education Act, 2004, as unconstitutional.
The Uttar Pradesh Board of Madarsa Education Act regulated the functioning of madrasas in the state. The act was struck down on the grounds that it violated the Constitution’s principles of secularism and fundamental rights.
The High Court had also ordered the transfer of madrasa students to formal schools, but the Supreme Court stayed the decision in April.
On Wednesday, a three-judge Bench led by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud announced that the petitions would be heard in detail soon.
The child rights body said in its affidavit that the model of education in madrasas is insufficient, and that the Uttar Pradesh Madarsa Education Board and its counterparts in other states lacked standardised curricula.
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