Government set to develop portal that will collect information about madrasas across India

According to a parliamentary panel report, the government would create a portal to compile data on the nation's recognised and unrecognised madrasas. On Monday, the report of the parliamentary standing committee was presented to Lok Sabha.

The Ministry of Minority Affairs informed the panel that it has hired a company to create a MIS (Management Information System) portal for the madrasas in order to have more detailed data on madrasas across the nation.

“The states/UTs will be requested to upload the information regarding madrasa schools on the said portal and the portal



will capture information of such recognised as well as unrecognised institutions,” said the report, as per PTI.

“It is envisaged the data collected from the states/UTs through the portal would facilitate in informed policy-making as well as in effective implementation of schemes,” the ministry told the committee.

The committee said that it had not been provided a deadline by which the ministry anticipated having the aforementioned MIS portal.

“Hence, the committee desires that MIS portal may be developed urgently in a time-bound manner,” it said.