By TCN News,
Guwahati: Encouraged with the Aligarh Muslim University initiative to open its off-campus centres in some Muslim dominated regions in the country, the Muslim community living in Assam has demanded the AMU administration to open a centre in the northeastern state.
The demand was made at a recent meeting of educationists and community leaders held in Guwahati. It was a preparatory consultative meeting for a national conference on educational agenda of minorities in Northeast region. Attended by more than sixty prominent educationists, MLAs, MP and other community leaders, the meeting discussed the need to organize such conference under the aegis of AMU. The meeting was convened by Dhubri Lok Sabha MP Maulana Badruddin Ajmal who has mooted the proposal to set up a special center of AMU in Assam.
The participants lauded the initiatives taken by the present Vice Chancellor of AMU Prof P K Abdul Azis for promoting the educational aspirations of the minorities in India.
Addressing the meeting, Prof. Mohammad Shabbir, Dean, Faculty of Law and Member-in-Charge, Legal Affairs of the University, said that being a Central University of international repute, AMU intends to establish a strong bond and an enduring academic linkage with minority managed educational institutions and create a networking environment so that the synergy created could be of immense benefit to the Educational Institutions in India. Aligarh Muslim University is thus mandated to carry out extensive work of specified nature all over the country for educational and cultural upliftment of the Muslims.
Dr Baharul Islam of All India United Democratic Front presented a Background Paper on the initiatives of Prof P.K. Abdul Azis, the present VC of AMU under Sec 5(20(c) of AMU Amendment Act. He stressed the need to rejuvenate the Aligarh Movement initiated by Sir Syed Ahmad Khan and to start afresh a new educational revolution in India.
The meeting discussed the need of setting up a Special Center of AMU in Assam. Mr H R A Chaudhury, a member of the AMU Court from Assam raised the demand to set up one such center in Assam.
Mr Badruddin Ajmal has written to the Vice Chancellor of AMU, the Prime Minister, HRD Minister and the Chief Minister of Assam to propose a Special Center of AMU in Dhubri. He led a special mission to AMU and met the Vice Chancellor and other high officials to stress the need for a Special Campus at Dhubri.
The meeting also decided to organize a National Conference on ‘Minority Education in Northeast India” in collaboration with the AMU, Aligarh. Badruddin Ajmal, MP stressed the need to hold such a conference to bring in all the stakeholders under one platform and prepare them for a collaborating affirmative action plan. Educationists form across the across the region will be invited/ expected to attend including NGOs and leaders of minority education. He has assured to co-sponsor the conference under AJMAL Foundation.