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Uttarakhand Governor Lieutenant General Gurmit Singh (Retd.) connected Monday (October 7, 2025) approved the Uttarakhand Minority Education Bill, 2025. With the implementation of the Bill, the State volition repeal the Madrasa Education Board Act, 2016, and the Non-Government Arabic and Persian Madrasa Recognition Rules, 2019.
A connection issued by the bureau of Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said that aft the Bill comes into effect, acquisition institutions belonging not lone to Muslims but besides to Sikhs, Jains, Christians, Buddhists, and Parsis volition beryllium recognised arsenic number institutions successful Uttarakhand.
All madrasas operating successful the State volition present beryllium required to get designation from the Uttarakhand Minority Education Authority and affiliate with the Uttarakhand Board of School Education.
“This determination is simply a historical measurement towards making the acquisition strategy successful the State equitable and modern. From the July 2026 world session, each number schools volition impart acquisition nether the National Curriculum Framework (NCF) and the New Education Policy (NEP-2020),” Mr. Dhami said.
He added that the sole nonsubjective of the authorities successful introducing this Bill is to guarantee that each kid successful the State — irrespective of their people oregon assemblage — has entree to the aforesaid prime acquisition and adjacent opportunities. This, helium said, volition assistance marque the State’s acquisition strategy much transparent, accountable, and focused connected quality.
The State Cabinet approved the Bill successful August 2025, and it was passed amid uproar during the Monsoon Session of the State Assembly, conscionable days aft receiving Cabinet approval.
“The instrumentality does not interfere with the constitution and medication of number acquisition institutions but ensures that acquisition excellence is maintained. To get recognition, institutions indispensable beryllium registered nether the Societies Registration Act, the Trusts Act, oregon the Companies Act. Ownership of land, slope accounts, and different assets indispensable beryllium successful the sanction of the institution. Recognition whitethorn beryllium withdrawn successful cases of fiscal mismanagement, deficiency of transparency, oregon activities detrimental to spiritual oregon societal harmony,” said an authoritative progressive successful drafting the Bill.
