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Staff Correspondent’
Chitradurga: Only around 35 per cent of Muslim children get admitted in schools at the primary level and the percentage further declines at the high school level, member of Karnataka State Wakf Board, Zameer Pasha has said. He was delivering a keynote address at the felicitation programme for meritorious Muslim students of SSLC and PUC organised by Hazarat Tippu Sultan Saheed Memorial Committee here on Saturday. Mr. Pasha lamented that though the Constitution had mandated free primary education to all children till 14 years, owing to lack of infrastructure the provision had not been met. He said the board had no paucity of funds. “If the funds are rightly used, providing better education to Muslims will not be difficult.” He said illiteracy should not be attributed to poverty since many children coming from poor financial backgrounds had done remarkably well in their studies. “Parents must take interest in imparting education to their children,” he said. Urdu schools
Deputy director Public Instruction G. Nagendrappa said that the number of school dropouts among Muslim children in Urdu schools was rapidly rising. He said that many Urdu schools had seats since parents admitted their children either to Kannada or English-medium schools. Mr. Nagendrappa said that in districts such as Udupi and Mangalore which had a considerable Muslim population, there were very few Urdu schools. In his address, MLA G. H Tippareddy said that the Union Government had constituted Rajinder Sachar Committee to assess the status of Muslims and to provide better living standards for them. He charged that, however, a few political parties instead of appreciating it, termed it as vote-bank politics. He appealed to people to educate their children in regional languages and also in English which was essential in getting better jobs. One hundred and twenty two outstanding and first class students of SSLC and 47 students of Pre-university were felicitated.
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