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Minister for Madrasa and Minority Affairs Abdus Sattar has received an invitation from Bangladesh requesting him to apprise them of the steps taken by the government, particularly those related to upgrading its madrasa system.
Sattar is scheduled to go for a weeklong visit to Bangladesh in the first week of April after it received the invitation from Rashed Khan Menon, chairman of standing committee on education in Bangladesh Parliament.
Earlier Pakistan and Turkey had sought advice from the West Bengal government on how they could upgrade their madrasa system. Sattar even got an invitation from Turkey last year but he could not go there.
The state government keeps aside Rs 500 crore for 581 recognised madrasa, the highest in the country.
“I can claim that our madrasa system is the best in the country. In the last one year, we have opened 75 new madrasas which is a record,” the minister said. He added a unique feature of the system that attracted other countries was the enrolment of a lot of Hindu girls in madrasas. “When people from other countries learn about this they get quite surprised,” he added.
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