Staff Reporter :
The Education Ministry on Sunday gave 20-point directions to the madrasa principals and superintendents to prevent stalk of militancy in their institutions.
The directions are: Not to leave campus without emergency, to arrange anti-militacny rally at each institution with the participation of the teachers, the students and the guardians, to enhance surveillance on students’ study, the principals’ monitoring of the activities of the residential students, to form anti-militancy committee, to increase co-curricular activities in the institution, recital of Quran and rendering of Islamic songs must be increased, to ensure the recitation of national anthem and hoisting of national flag every day, to form anti-militany committee in and around the institution, each madrasa principal will have to take the responsibility of his or her institution, the teachers must take step to remove evil elements from the students, the teachers must be students-friendly in the classrooms, to ameliorate ethics and morality among the students, not to use the students for personal reason, to communicate all the guardians continuously, to teach the students about Islam correctly by the united efforts of the teachers and the guardians and to increase the teachers attention to the students.
The Education Ministry gave the directions at a view exchange meeting with the madrasa principals in the city’s Krishibid Institution Auditorium on Sunday.
About 1,200 principals, superintendents and senior teachers from all over the country took part in the programme.
Chairman of Madrasa Board Professor AKM Saeef Ullah presided over the programme, while Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid was the chief guest.
Secretary to Education Ministry Md Sohrab Hossain, Additional Secretary (Madrasa) SM Ehsan Kabir, Director General of Directorate of Madrasa Md Billal Hossain, Vice-Chancellor of Islami Arabic University Professor Md Ahsan Ullah, Secretary General of Bangladesh Jamiatul Modarresin Sabbir Ahmed Momtazi spoke the programme.
Additional Secretary (Development) of the Education Ministry A S Mahmud presented the keynote paper in the programme. Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid said, the Education Ministry found the university teachers’ involvement in militancy. The ministry was compelled to expel them.
“The principals and the teachers must increase surveillance on the students. The students’ all activities should be brought under the teachers’ monitoring. If a teacher makes any abnormal behaviour by students it should be informed to the Upazila Nirbahi Officer,” the minister said.
Nurul Islam Nahid said, there is no militancy in Alia madrasas. It was wrong information that the militancy had been produced by the madrasha teachers, he said.
“The madrasa is not the venue of militancy. We did not find any information in the past and now we have no information about it. Modern education is being delivered in the madrasas,” he said. Nahid also asked the media not to brand the madrasa students and teachers as militants.
