Survey of madrassas in Uttarakhand is necessary: CM Pushkar Singh Dhami
Dehradun, Sep 13: Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Tuesday said a survey of madrassas in the state is necessary, as "all sorts of things" are coming to the fore about them.
Dhami's statement comes just a day after newly elected president of the Uttarakhand Waqf Board Shadab Shams underlined the need for a survey of the madrassas in the state.
"Survey of madrassas is a must as all sorts of things are coming to the surface about them in different places. Their survey will bring out the truth," Dhami told reporters when asked to comment on the statement made by Shams who was elected unopposed as the president of the board recently.
The development comes days after the Uttar Pradesh government directed to conduct a survey of "unrecognized" madarssas in the state to collect information about the number of teachers, curriculum, and basic facilities available there, among others.
Shams had also made a strong pitch for providing modern education at madrassas and spoken of the Waqf Board's plans to introduce the Uttarakhand Board syllabus in the Islamic educational institutions.
CCTV cameras will also be installed in the madrassas for the sake of total transparency in their activities, the Waqf Board president had said.
The Uttarakhand Waqf Board runs 103 madrassas in the state.
Dhami also said the Uttarakhand Public Service Commission which has been asked to conduct recruitment examinations for the subordinate grades that was earlier the responsibility of the Uttarakhand Subordinate Services Selection Commission (UKSSSC) will be issuing the calendar of examinations to be held by it this week.
The vacancies will be advertised in October and the examinations will be conducted by December, the chief minister said.
He said the responsibility of conducting recruitment examinations in the subordinate grades had been assigned to the state public service commission as the ongoing investigation into the paper leak case of an examination held by the UKSSSC could have delayed the examinations for subordinate grades and affected the future of the candidates.
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Over 17,000 people went missing in Delhi in 2024: NCRB
New Delhi (PTI): A total of 23,058 people, comprising 9,482 men and 13,576 women, were reported missing in Delhi in 2024, according to the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).
Of the total, 5,491 were children below the age of 18 — 1,571 boys, 3,920 girls.
The city recorded 17,567 fresh adult missing persons cases in 2024, comprising 7,911 men and 9,656 women.
According to the NCRB data, released on Wednesday, 14,637 men, 18,238 women and six transgender persons were still missing from previous years.
At the latest count, in 2024, Delhi had a total of 55,939 missing persons cases — 24,119 men, 31,814 women and six transgender persons.
In 2024, police traced or collected 28,392 missing persons, including 12,182 men, 16,208 women and two transgender persons.
Only half of the men and half of the women who went missing could be traced.
A total of 27,547 missing persons – 11,937 men, 15,606 women, four transgender persons — were yet to be untraced by the end of the year, the data showed.
The data also revealed that 5,352 children from previous years remained untraced at the beginning of 2024.
The number of still missing boys was 1,621, and the number of missing girls was 3,729. Two transgender children were yet to be found.
After adding the pending cases from previous years, the total number of missing children cases handled in 2024 rose to 10,843.
The police traced or recovered 6,762 missing children — 2,030 boys, 4,732 girls.
The recovery rate stood at 63.6 per cent for boys and 61.9 per cent for girls, while no transgender child was traced.
By the end of 2024, a total of 4,081 children remained untraced, 1,162 of them boys, 2,917 girls, and two transgender children.
