Rise in boys dropping out of madrasas in Bengal

Rise in boys dropping out of madrasas in Bengal

News:

1. Almost 70% of students taking the High Madrasah examination in 2018 in West Bengal were girls.

Important facts:

2. The reasons behind high numbers of girls are:

• Schemes promoting girls education namely Kanyashree, condistional cash transfer scheme, Sabuj Sathi.
• High drop-out of boys or their migration to other states for work

3. The drop-out of school going boys is higher in certain parts of West Begal, particularly in minority dominated districts of Malda and Murshidabad.

4. About Madrasah Board.

• The Madrasah Board got its legal status in 1994 under an Act passed by West Bengal Assembly.
• The Act gave the Madrasah Board powers to affiliate institutions and conduct examination.
• There are 614 high madrasas in West Bengal.
• It provide education in regular subjects like language, science, maths along with two optional subjects of Arabic and Islamic Studies (Islam Parichay).
• It also affiliates 102 senior madrasas providing religious education and conducting Alim (Class X) and Fazil (Class XII) equivalent examinations.