05-31-2007, 05:34 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Ban on co-ed for Muslim girls favoured
From Shruba Mukherjee,DH News Service,New Delhi:Â
The National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions is likely to recommend banning of co-education for Muslim girls till Class XII.The commission, which is presently working on a report on status of education for the girls in the minority community, is also likely to suggest making of science and mathematics optional for them after Class VIII.
âSchoolgirls are not mature enough to take important decisions like choosing life partners and they get easily influenced by films,â Justice M S A Siddiqui told Deccan Herald.âBut the fact is our society does not accept inter-religion or inter-caste marriages and there are instances of communal flare-ups on such inter-religion relationships,â he said.
Justice Siddiqui added that the ban should be implemented at least in the communally-sensitive districts.
Factors responsible
Identifying poor performance in mathematics and science subjects as responsible factors for the high drop-out rates among students from Muslim community, Justice Siddiqui said such subjects might be made optional for the girl students from Class VII/VIII and subjects like fashion designing and cookery could be introduced for them.
Advocating the need of special incentives for parents for sending their daughters to school, he said that stipends could be offered to the girl students from poor families, which might motivate their parents to send them to school.
âWe can recommend the government to provide free education to two girl children from each family with a warning to the parents that if they go for a third child, the benefits to the elder ones will be withdrawn,â Justice Siddiqui said, adding that it would ensure population control as well as gender justice.
Vocational training
Maintaining that residential institutions meant exclusively for girls could go a long way in bringing Muslim girls to school, Justice Siddiqui said courses on handicrafts or some other forms of vocational training in the school itself could be launched with linkages to the market.
Thus, whatever handicraft items the students could produce, could be sold and they could earn in course of their learning.
The commission might also recommend a national-level talent search examination for the girl students and those scoring a particular percentage could be specially groomed by the government in subjects and courses of their choice, he said.
Justice Siddiqui was also very particular in engaging honorary coordinators at grassroots level, who could identify talented girl children and also generate awareness among parents on sending their daughters to school.Â
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Imagine if Modi did the same with Hindu girls, then the whole nation would have an epileptic seizure about the rise of Hindu fascism.
From Shruba Mukherjee,DH News Service,New Delhi:Â
The National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions is likely to recommend banning of co-education for Muslim girls till Class XII.The commission, which is presently working on a report on status of education for the girls in the minority community, is also likely to suggest making of science and mathematics optional for them after Class VIII.
âSchoolgirls are not mature enough to take important decisions like choosing life partners and they get easily influenced by films,â Justice M S A Siddiqui told Deccan Herald.âBut the fact is our society does not accept inter-religion or inter-caste marriages and there are instances of communal flare-ups on such inter-religion relationships,â he said.
Justice Siddiqui added that the ban should be implemented at least in the communally-sensitive districts.
Factors responsible
Identifying poor performance in mathematics and science subjects as responsible factors for the high drop-out rates among students from Muslim community, Justice Siddiqui said such subjects might be made optional for the girl students from Class VII/VIII and subjects like fashion designing and cookery could be introduced for them.
Advocating the need of special incentives for parents for sending their daughters to school, he said that stipends could be offered to the girl students from poor families, which might motivate their parents to send them to school.
âWe can recommend the government to provide free education to two girl children from each family with a warning to the parents that if they go for a third child, the benefits to the elder ones will be withdrawn,â Justice Siddiqui said, adding that it would ensure population control as well as gender justice.
Vocational training
Maintaining that residential institutions meant exclusively for girls could go a long way in bringing Muslim girls to school, Justice Siddiqui said courses on handicrafts or some other forms of vocational training in the school itself could be launched with linkages to the market.
Thus, whatever handicraft items the students could produce, could be sold and they could earn in course of their learning.
The commission might also recommend a national-level talent search examination for the girl students and those scoring a particular percentage could be specially groomed by the government in subjects and courses of their choice, he said.
Justice Siddiqui was also very particular in engaging honorary coordinators at grassroots level, who could identify talented girl children and also generate awareness among parents on sending their daughters to school.Â
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Imagine if Modi did the same with Hindu girls, then the whole nation would have an epileptic seizure about the rise of Hindu fascism.