‘Fake’ madrasas costing the state exchequer over Rs 100 crore per year have been detected by the Uttar Pradesh government during its drive to register such minority institutions online.
“Online registration of madrasas was started in the state in a bid to bring in transparency in their functioning. But even after increasing the deadline for the same a number of times, 20 mini ITIs (run by madrasas) out of a total of 140 mini ITIs failed to register themselves. Over 2,000 madrasas in the state also failed to join the government’s online registration drive. A grant of Rs 100 crore is given to such minority institutions by the state government every year,” state Minority Welfare Minister Lakshmi Narain Chowdhury told PTI.
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