Madarsas (Islamic educational institutes) declared as Non - Schools by Maharashtra Government

According to the link, only such madarsa will be considered as non school that do not teach Maths, mathmatics, English.  Obviously  teaching only religious education is really no schooling. 

1. True. But most of the Madarsas are not adhering to existing education norms. Such religious institutions are being de recognized by the Maharashtra government.

Religion places like Madarsa, which teach only religious things can not be considered as schools. In schools students are supposed to be taught about science, maths, about surroundings, history so one can think freely. 

Yes. There is an Education department and it prescribes a curriculum to be followed by all the educational institutions. The successful students who come out of the institution are eligible for higher education..A self prescribed curriculum that's different from the prescribed curriculum will not be accepted and the students are not eligible for higher studies.

It will be in the interest of Muslims themselves that their students study what others are studying rather than limit only to religious studies.But soon it will be seen as an attack on religion etc and poor Muslims will continue to remain backward.

True. Muslims though not for themselves atleast for the future of their chiLdren, they should make their children study in the regular scools with prescribed curriculum.

But in a silent but expanding way it is already happening. Soon you will see a boom of muslim students studying in normal schools. The critical mass for such happening is round the corner. 

vijay wrote:

It will be in the interest of Muslims themselves that their students study what others are studying rather than limit only to religious studies.But soon it will be seen as an attack on religion etc and poor Muslims will continue to remain backward.

It will certainly happen and it will be done by the Muslims themselves and certain others who go out of their way to please them all the time. But we cannot take any blame for it, the government has done all they could have, even giving them huge subsidies for their pilgrimage and yet they refuse to join the mainstream. I am sure this move too is going to be labeled as saffron extremism soon.

These Madarsas are almost non - existent in AP. Right from the primary education to college education no Muslim prfeers a Madarsa education in my state AP.

Madarasa is not a bad idea in itself.  Except government schools,  all institutions are managed by one or the other religious sect- Arya Samaj, Sanatan Dharama, Khalasa (Sikh) and so on.  The Christian missionary schools are also run by church. 

The emphasis should be on basic education that consists of three Rs- Reading, writing and arithmetic. Now there is another R- computer. computer literacy is also a must now. Religious education- be ths Hindu arya samaji, sanatani or Christian- can be only in addition and not as a substitute.

In Maharashtra, government has decided to exclude only such madarasas that do not impart basic education.