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Modern education at madrasa stuns Governor

JAIPUR: Rajasthan Governor S.K. Singh was in for a pleasant surprise on modernisation of education at a madrasa, evolved as a senior secondary school, in the Walled City of Jaipur on Wednesday when he visited the Muslim-dominated localities for distribution of free blankets to poor children.

The Governor, impressed with the rapid strides made by Rehmani Model School, called upon the students to set high aims in their life and work hard to achieve them. He said the young students should imbibe the positive values of coexistence and communal harmony.

The Governor, after being informed of computer education having been introduced from the first standard, got another surprise when he was introduced to the madrasa’s Hindu Principal, Sarla Vyas. He evinced a keen interest in this unexplored secular aspect of madrasa education.

Making the customary Islamic invocation “Bismillah-ir-Rehman-ir-Rahim” (In the name of God) before the madrasa teachers and students, Mr. Singh said the institution should strive to uphold high ideals for promoting national unity and teach the children to rise above petty considerations of class and caste.

“Division and discrimination on the basis of caste is the bane of Hindu society. Muslims should reject such a schism and prove that they are the children of one God,” said Mr. Singh.

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