Story link: http://www.goodnewsindia.com/index.php/sieve/article/model-madrassas-of-bengal

It seems madrassas in Marxist-run state of Bengal have no adverse image problem. How come? Pakistan, whose madrassas are often profiled as terror schools, wanted to know and asked the state government.

Jayanth Jacob, reporting in the New Indian Express today, says the reasons are simple and few. Madrassas in the state are not exclusively for muslim children only. Other communities send their children too. Nor are they for boys only; nearly 65% are girls.Finally, appointment of teachers is done by the government- the only extra qualification specified is that the candidates have a knowledge of Islam and its culture. The state spends a whopping Rs130 crores in running madrassas.

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