Uttarakhand seals over 100 illegal Madrasas in statewide crackdown

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The Uttarakhand government has initiated a crackdown on illegal madrasas, sealing over 100 across the state. The action follows reports of potential terror funding and illegal financial sources.

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00:00I have news coming in from the hill state of Uttarakhand.

00:03It appears that the Uttarakhand government is doing a crackdown on illegal madarsas,

00:08the Islamic seminary schools.

00:10Dhami government has seen over 100 madarsas in Uttarakhand.

00:14Remember, this hill state has faced communal tensions also recently.

00:19Illegal madarsas are facing the acts now in Uttarakhand.

00:22Earlier also, about 90 illegal Islamic schools were shut in Dehradun.

00:28The Uttarakhand government continuously taking a tough stand against what they say are illegally

00:32operating madarsas.

00:34Administration sealed over 16 in Udham Singh Nagar district and 2 in Haridwar.

00:40So far, over 100 in total have been locked in the entire state.

00:44So this is happening in batches.

00:46My colleague Ankit Sharma joins me for the latest on that.

00:49Ankit, tell me more about this.

00:52What has triggered the government's decision?

00:55Where all are primarily these madarsas are, where they have been shut and why?

01:25in Uttarakhand and so far, it is believed that more than 300 illegal madarsas might

01:43be running in the state and going further against the illegal operations of these madarsas.

01:53Uttarakhand is taking action and have sealed more than 110 madarsas across the state and

02:00the maximum comes from Dehradun which stands at 92.

02:05So these madarsas are being checked every day and according to the details received

02:12so far, every day at least 4 and 5 madarsas are being sealed in various districts.

02:18The government says that they are not going to stop here.

02:21They are going to completely wipe out the illegal network of madarsas and mazars.

02:27So far, CM Ghami also said earlier that they have razzed the encroachments on government

02:33land and which totals to more than 3000 acres so far.

02:38And going further on madarsas action, the government will ensure that none of the illegal

02:47madarsas are being run in the state.

02:48So this crackdown primarily, as the government says, is on illegally operated madarsas.

02:52These are specific Islamic schools.

02:54Remember that there are government operated as well but these are the ones, as the administration

02:59says, had no registration or prior information about how and why were they running in the

03:04state of India.

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