PESHAWAR – For the first time in the history, the KP education departmentwill handle the registration, curriculum, examination, monitoring and otherallied activities of the seminaries across province.
Currently, 3,028 seminaries are functioning in the province.
The establishment department amended the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Rules ofBusiness a few days ago to give the education department the role ofsupervising seminaries. Dept to handle registration, curriculum, exam,monitoring affairs
The relevant official documents show the amendment was made in Schedule-II,under the heading ‘Elementary and Secondary Department’.
After Serial No 11, a new entry, ‘registration, curriculum, examination,monitoring and other allied activities of Deeni Madaris’ shall beincorporated.
In a letter separately sent to all quarters concerned, the establishmentdepartment has said, “in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 139 ofthe constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the Government of theKhyber Pakhtunkhwa is pleased to direct that in the Khyber PakhtunkhwaRules of Business 1985, the amendments shall be incorporated.”
The religious scholars of different schools of thoughts and the officialsof the education department have been in contact for the last one monthdiscussing different aspects of the seminaries being placed under theeducation department.