By Anupam Srivastava / Hindustan Times
Minister for minorities welfare, Dharmpal Singh, has said that madrasas which are linked to any sort of anti-national activities will be shut down. Singh was speaking at a function in Bareilly on Thursday.
Earlier in July, this year, he had formed four teams of senior officials to probe madrasas in the districts in or near the India-Nepal border in Uttar Pradesh to find out the source of their funds.
At that time he said that the exercise was part of a crackdown by the Uttar Pradesh government on registered and unregistered madrasas receiving foreign funds in the border areas.
Singh said, “After the madrasa survey last year, authorities found most madrasas in the border areas, of late, had been receiving big funds, but were unable to give an accurate account of the money. They only say that they have received the money through Zakaat (donation) but the Muslim population in these bordering districts is not so rich, as to be able to donate such huge amounts to madrasas. So, we decided to probe the source of funding to these madrasas.”
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