"Muslims living in West Bengal and Kerala are exulted and Assam, Rajasthan, Haryana, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh have requested us to open centers as more and more states want Muslims to take up education on priority basis," he said.

The AMU recently set up new centers at Malappuram in Kerala and Murshidabad in West Bengal. By 2020, when AMU would be celebrating its centenary as a central university, the centers would be full-fledged campuses with the potential to become universities, Azis said.

He was speaking at a function to commemorate the 193rd birth anniversary of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan who founded the Muhammedan Anglo-Oriental College which later developed into the Aligarh Muslim University.