The federation includes Madrasas, modern schools, and colleges, professional and vocational institutions.
The new federation would strive for peaceful, constructive, democratic way to achieve educational aspiration of the community. It would also form managerial / administrative setups of educational institutions. It would relate to every kind of educational institutions of the community – modern, religious and vocational.
“The schemes devised for educational advancement of Muslims and the funds allocated for minorities’ educational institutions by the Government hardly reach its target and fund meant for the schemes remained unutilised”, said Jamaat functionary.
It has been observed that the funds allocated for building construction and funds for scholarship failed to reach poor and deserving students due only to lack of awareness.
Appreciating the step Justice M. Sohail Siddiqui, the chairman of National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions said that Indian Muslims needed educational revolution. He hoped that hope that the move would help in providing good education to the Muslim community.
Prof. Manzoor Ahmed, former V-C of Agra University who is chosen as the President of the federation termed the move as right step toward educational upliftment of the community.
“The idea is to improve the quality of education and make it uniform to match the modern day needs. Besides, there are a lot of government schemes for the welfare of minorities that the managing bodies usually are unaware of,” said federation’s General Secretary, Mujtaba Farooq who is also the secretary of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind. He said that the federation will also provide training to teachers serving in madrasas and schools to equip them with modern education.
Prominent Muslim leaders, including former parliamentarian Syed Shahabuddin, retired bureaucrat and chancellor of Jamia Hamdard University Syed Hamid, Dr. S.Q.R. Ilyas, Dr. Zafarul Islam Khan Editor, Milli Gazette and Dr. Zafar Mahmood of Sachar Committee, were also present at the launching ceremony of the federation.
