Unregistered Madrasas In Muzaffarnagar To Be Fined ₹10,000 Daily

Mumbai: Uttar Pradesh’s basic education department has issued a notice stating that unregistered madrasas in Muzaffarnagar district will be fined ₹10,000/day. Many madrasas have been issued notices, asking them to produce relevant documents within three days or face action.

More than a dozen madrasas operating without the required registration received a notification from a basic education department official requesting that they present the necessary documentation.

There are over 24,000 madrasas in Uttar Pradesh, of which 16,000 are officially recognized and 8,000 are not, according to authorities.

The notice-issued madrasas have been ordered to present the necessary documentation within three days of the order being received, failing which they risk sanctions under the regulations.

The warning said that madrasas would be fined Rs 10,000 per day if they were discovered to be functioning without authorization.

According to Muzaffarnagar Basic Shiksha Adhikari (BSA) Shubham Shukla, the district minority department has notified his office that over a hundred madrasas operating in this area are operating outside of the law and without district recognition or registration.

The education department’s directive was deemed “unlawful” by the Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, an association of Indian Muslims, who took serious issue to the notification sent to madrasas.

The madrasas in the state are “being harassed by serving them illegal notices only to target a particular community,” according to Maulana Zakir Husain, secretary of Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind’s Uttar Pradesh branch.
Husain stated, “The madrasas are giving the students free education; they will not be able to pay the fine of Rs 10,000 per day.”
A senior official in Lucknow claims that over 4,000 madrasas in the state are being investigated for allegedly receiving funding from outside sources.

A three-person special investigation team (SIT) has been established by the state government to look into 4,000 madrasas, the most of which are located along the border between India and Nepal, and are purportedly receiving funding from outside, according to the official.

According to the official, the SIT will investigate if any unlawful actions, including terrorism or forced religious conversion, were funded with the money they received.

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