PATNA: Nationwide Fee for Safety of Youngster Rights (NCPCR) chairman Priyank Kanoongo on Sunday raised severe considerations about what he claimed as “radical curriculum” and use of “Pakistan-published books” allegedly in government-funded madrassas in Bihar and the enrolment of Hindu kids in such colleges.
In a put up on platform X, he questioned the position of the United Nations Kids’s Fund (Unicef) in designing the madrassa curriculum, calling it the “top of appeasement by each Unicef and the Bihar State Madrassa Schooling Board”.Kanoongo urged the UN to research these actions and advisable the dissolution of the Madrassa Board.
“Many books included within the prescribed syllabus of those madrassas are revealed in Pakistan and analysis on their content material is ongoing,” Kanoongo wrote in his put up. He additional criticised the inclusion of texts like Talimul Islam, which he claimed label non-Islamic individuals as ‘kafir’ (infidels). Kanoongo claimed whereas Hindu kids have been admitted to those madrassas, the Bihar govt has not disclosed the ratio of Hindu and different kids.
On the problem of transferring Hindu kids from madrassas to varsities, Kanoongo cited info from the Madrasa Board, saying the curriculum was developed by Unicef. He condemned this involvement, calling it the “top of appeasement” by each Unicef and the Madrasa Board.
“It’s not Unicef’s job to create a radical curriculum utilizing funds obtained from govts, beneath the guise of kid safety,” he wrote in his put up.
Unicef officers in Patna declined to touch upon the controversy, however sources within the state schooling division indicated that Unicef ready the madrassa curriculum on the Bihar State Madrasa Schooling Board’s request, aligning with the New Schooling Coverage of the Centre.
“A madrassa is just not a spot for fundamental schooling of youngsters in any type. Kids, together with these from Hindu neighborhood, ought to research in common colleges,” Kanoongo wrote in his put up.
The NCPCR chairman mentioned utilizing funds for actions outdoors the scope of the Proper to Schooling (RTE) Act violates each the Indian Structure and the United Nations Conference on the Rights of the Youngster (UNCRC) and known as for a UN probe.
