Assam Education and Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma introduced the Assam Madrassas Education (Provincialisation) Act of 1995 on the opening day of the three-day winter session. Earlier, Sarma had said that the state government had decided to make education 'secular' and 620 madrasas administered by the state government would be shut. "All the 620 government-run madrasas will be converted into the general schools and 97 Sanskrit tols handed over to Kumar Bhaskarvarma Sanskrit University. These Sanskrit tols will be converted into centres of learning and research where Indian culture, civilisation, and nationalism will be studied. He, however, said that madrasas run by private organisations in Assam would not be shut.

Source: dna December 28, 2020 14:12 UTC