Mufti Mansuri has decided to open a school for the minority Muslims

After a year of being declared as innocent by the Supreme Court in the 2002 Akshardham terror attack case, Mufti Abdul Qayyum Mansuri has decided to open a school at Kalupur, a Muslim-dominated are in Ahmedabad.

The trustees of the school said that they wanted to “safeguard” their children from the growing categorization of education without keeping them away from English-medium education. They said it was also an attempt to preserve their culture. After school hours, all students will be given Madrasa teaching for one-and-a half-hour daily.

One of the trustees of Idara Falah-ul-Muslim Trust said in an interview that the school will run Suffah English School. Mansuri announced his decision during a programme at Dariyapur Sunday. During the program the former Director General of Police (DGP) R B Sreekumar. Sreekumar, who had several run-ins with the Gujarat government following his depositions before the Nanavati Commission probing the 2002 post-Godhra riots, was invited as the chief guest.

Suffah English-medium co-education school will commence from June 15 with four classes – three pre-primary (nursery and junior and senior kindergarten) and Class I with total seven sections. With a capacity of nearly 185 students, 25-30 in each class, the school will run from a rented eight-room building at Kalupur’s Karoda pol.

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