2009-10 (16.6 MB) - The National Institute of Open Schooling

National Institute of Open Schooling
5. Education of Special Groups
5.0 Introduction
The Minority Cell is a separate unit of NIOS, created
in 2006 to look after problems of minority
communities specially Muslims. It is making efforts
to bring out-of-school Muslim children within the fold
of elementary education through accreditation of
Maktabs and Madarsas. The out of school Muslim
children are being given education free of cost under
SSA and SPQEM policy. Thus Minority Cell of NIOS
has become a major instrument of policy intervention
for Government of India for improving educational
access for Muslim Minorities at school level.
5.1 Major Achievements
The norms for granting accreditation to institutions
were relaxed for traditional educational institutions of
Muslims like Madarsas, Maktabs and Dar-ul-ulooms
into mainstream education through imparting
Academic and Vocational education of NIOS. This in
turn, has made NIOS, a lead institution in this
regard. The details of accredited centres are given
below:-
Community wise list of AVI, AI and AA Centres up to March 2010
Community AIs AVIs AAs Total
Muslim Minority Institutes -114 Minority Institutes -39 Minority Institutes -11 164
Madarsas - 14 Madarsas - 14 Madarsas - 26 54
Christian 97 79 - 176
Sikh 32 07 - 39
Jain - 01 01
Total 257 140 37 434
The total number of AI s, AVIs and AA s under Minority Institutions of NIOS as on March 2010 are:
STATE AIs AVIs AAs Total
Madhya Pradesh 19 07 02 28
Uttar Pradesh 54 21 16 91
Haryana 07 03 - 10
Bihar 13 23 07 43
Gujarat 09 03 02 14
Karnataka 11 10 02 23
Maharashtra 29 05 01 35
W.B. 23 06 - 29
Andhra Pradesh 04 02 - 06
Kerala 19 16 02 37
Rajasthan 07 02 - 09
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