DAMMAM, 21 November 2006 — Ali Ashraf Fatmi, India’s minister of Human Resource Development, emphasized in a speech yesterday the role of education and how every Muslim has a role to play in alleviating the current situation of Muslims in India.
Around 300 Aligarh Muslim University alumni listened to the speech where Fatmi highlighted how his ministry was involved in modernizing the madrasas by including English, mathematics and computer science in the curriculum and providing economic help to minorities.
Fatmi spoke about the efforts to get Kendriya Vidyalayas to Saudi Arabia so that the heavy load on the CBSE-affiliated schools could be reduced.
The Sir Syed Day Program started with a speech competition titled, “Current Education System: Need for Change” where women students not only outnumbered the men but also bagged all prizes. Sanaa Iqbal and Daphne Clidus were the best speakers in the senior and the junior sections respectively.
