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14/12/22 12:32 PM IST

Scheme for madrasas, minority institutes

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  • The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment recently pulled up the Union government for the delay in approving the continuation of the Scheme for Providing Education to Madrasas/Minorities (SPEMM), which provides for financial assistance to madrasas and minority institutes. 
Scheme for Providing Quality Education in Madrasas (SPQEM)
  • It seeks to bring about qualitative improvement in Madrasas to enable Muslim children attain standards of the National education system in formal education subjects.
  • To provide financial assistance to traditional institutions to encourage them to introduce Science, Mathematics, Social Studies, Hindi and English in their curriculum to attain proficiency
  • To strengthen State Madrasa Boards opting for assistance by enabling them to monitor the Madrasa modernization programme.
  • To provide quality components in Madrasas such as remedial teaching, assessment and enhancement of learning outcomes, Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan etc.
Infrastructure Development of Minority Institutes (IDMI)
  • Infrastructure Development of Minority Institutes (IDMI) has been operationalised to augment Infrastructure in Private Aided/Unaided Minority Schools/Institutions in order to enhance the quality of education to minority children.
  • To facilitate education of minorities by augmenting and strengthening school infrastructure in Minority Institutions (elementary/ secondary/senior secondary schools) in order to expand the facilities for formal education to children of minority communities.
  • To encourage educational facilities for girls, children with special needs and those who are most deprived educationally amongst the minorities.
Source- PIB

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