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No madrassa added on grant list in 2018-19: Up govt

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Press Trust of India Lucknow
Last Updated : Jul 25 2019 | 8:21 PM IST

The Uttar Pradesh government
In a written reply to a question in Legislative Council to Samajwadi Party legislator Pervez Ali, Cabinet minister for minority welfare Laxmi Narayan Chaudhary said, "The government did not add any madrassa on the list of grants in 2018-19."
To a supplementary question, he said, "Presently there are 558 madrassas in the state, which are given grants by the state government. In two other madrassas, there is managerial dispute."
Replying to this, Chaudhary said, "The government is following the 2016 policy of the previous government in this regard."

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First Published: Jul 25 2019 | 8:21 PM IST

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