Central Sponsored Scheme for Providing Quality Education in Madrasa (SPQEM): ACase Study of Bhopal City

Dr. Shabana Ashraf

Volume : V, Issue : X, October - 2016

Central Sponsored Scheme for Providing Quality Education in Madrasa (SPQEM): ACase Study of Bhopal City

Dr. Shabana Ashraf

Abstract :

The Central Government implement scheme, namely Scheme for Providing Quality Education in madarsas (SPQEM) in Private Aided/Unaided Minority Institutes. Under SPQEM, the Ministry of HRD provides financial assistance to the madarsas which introduce modern subjects i.e. science, mathematics, social studies, Hindi and English in their curriculum so that academic proficiency for class I-XII is attainable for minority children studying in Madarasas. This study examines the attitude and problems of parents, teachers and students regarding the implementation of this scheme. For this study researcher selected the madrasas of old city area located in Bhopal District. Self-prepared attitude scale was used for measuring the attitude of teachers, students and parents towards SPQEM Scheme on the basis of seven dimensions of SPQEM Scheme. Researcher also done focus group discussion with parents, teachers and students to know the barriers in enrollment, reasons to drop out and problem faced by the students in Madarsa. Findings of this study suggests that there was no satisfactory attitude among parents, teachers and students towards this scheme, it may be due to delaying of fund discharge to the institutes and there are so many loopholes and weakness which comes across in the mainstreaming of Madrasa students in regular education. These will be discussed in full paper