New Delhi: The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has rejected the idea of creating a central madarsa board to establish madarsas on the lines of the Central Board of Secondary Education.

"AIMPLB totally opposes the idea of creating a Central Madarsa Board. The Board's executive committee, which held its meeting here on Sunday passed a resolution rejecting this idea," the Board's spokesman S.Q.R. Ilyas said.

"A delegation of the Board will soon meet HRD Minister Arjun Singh in this regard," he said, adding nobody should interfere in the working of madarsas. Earlier, the Standing Committee of the National Monitoring Committee for Minority Education headed by Justice M.S.A. Siddiqui had suggested that the central madarsa board should establish madarsa schools on the same lines on which the central schools were established.

The panel had said this was to ensure that the grants for minority education could be channelised through the board for modernisation of madarsa education. — PTI

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