Nearly 1,000 Nepali students enrolled in madrasas in the State might not be able to take the Uttar Pradesh Madrasa Education Board exams due to lack of Aadhaar cards which are mandatory for the test, a madrasa teachers’ body said on Tuesday.
The situation has prompted the Madarise Arbia Teachers’ Association to write to the Madrasa Shiksha Parishad in this regard.
“Forms of madrasa exams are being filled. If the mandatory provision of providing the Aadhaar number is not withdrawn, then 1,000 students hailing from Nepal will not be able to take the exam for munshi, maulvi, aalim, kaamil and faazil,” said MATA general secretary Diwan Sahab Jaman Khan.
Nepalese citizens get birth and citizenship certificates, and based on one of these documents, they are given admissions to madrasas in India, he said.
“The last date to fill the exam form is February 10, and without Aadhaar details, the forms will not be accepted,” Mr. Khan said.
Deputy CM Dinesh Sharma, however, said he isn’t aware of the issue. “We are yet to get any such case,” he said. On whether students from Nepal would be able to appear in the exams without Aadhaar, Mr. Sharma said, “If any such incident comes before the government, we will hold a department meeting and take a decision as per the provisions of our laws.”
UPMEB Registrar Rahul Gupta said that the government has been apprised about the matter and he was awaiting directives.
