Amid rising protest by the opposition legislature in Assam. The state assembly has passed the Assam Repealing Bill 2020, seeking to abolish the Assam Madrassa Education (Provincialisation) Act, 1995 and the Assam Madrassa Education (Provincialisation of Services of Employees and Re-Organisation of Madrassa Educational Institutions) Act, 2018.
The state Education and Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma introduced the bill on Monday and said that the bill was brought to make the academic environment of the state “secular”.
Sarma later in a tweet said: “Glad that the Bill pertaining to repeal of Provincialisation of Madrassas has been passed, even as Congress and AIUDF expectedly staged a walkout in Assembly. All Madrassas, being run under government stands, converted into regular educational institute wef April 1, 2021.”
The minister also said that the state government would pass another bill to regulate private madrasas as well.
“We are in the process of drafting a bill whereby Qawmi (private) madrassas would have to be registered with the state government and they will be given registration if and only if they teach science, mathematics etc along with religious education,” he said.
