Issuance of forms for registration of seminaries will start from this month. PHOTO: FILE
The DGRE with its head office in Islamabad’s G-8 Sector will have 16 regional offices all over the country and the ministry has already posted officers as directors in these offices.
The services of dozens of employees from Basic Education Community Schools (BECS) and National Commission of Human Development (NCHD) have been hired to run the directorate and its regional offices.
The regional offices of the DGRE have been set up in Rawalpindi, Lahore, Multan, Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukkur, Peshawar, Dera Ismail Khan, Swat, Quetta, Khuzdar, Loralai, Muzaffarabad, Mirpur, Gilgit and Skardu.
Federal Minister for Education and Professional Training Shafqat Mahmood had termed the setting up of the DGRE a “landmark achievement” of the present government.
The DGRE would help seminaries get registered and it would also work as a facilitation centre for them.
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The seminary students would also be imparted contemporary education and would appear in exams held under the Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education.
The issuance of forms for registration of seminaries will start from this month.
Sources revealed that full cooperation would be extended to the seminaries that register with the DGRE and a non-interference policy would be adopted with regard to the internal issues of the seminaries, including the curriculum, daily affairs, financial issues, donations and others.
The registered seminaries will be allowed to open a bank account, while those not registering will not be able to do so.
The registered seminary will hire two teachers for which the Ministry of Education will pay Rs35,000 per month.
Sources said that the madressah that cooperates with the ministry and performs well will get two classrooms built on the government’s expense.
Similarly, in case of any problem at the registered religious seminary, the law enforcement agencies will approach the Ministry of Education and take the ministry into confidence before taking any legal action.
Sources said the talks between the government and the religious seminaries held last week had been successful.
Joint Educational Advisor and Ministry of Education Director General Prof Rafiq Tahir stated that the religious seminaries would be provided with facilities similar to other educational institutions.
Tahir said the administrators of the madressah had been delighted with the government’s decision and had started contacting the ministry for acquiring the registration forms.
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