Scheme for Providing Education to Madrasas/Minorities (SPEMM)

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• Recently, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment pulled up the Union government for the delay in approving the continuation of the Scheme for Providing Education to Madrasas/Minorities (SPEMM).

About 

• It provides financial assistance to madrasas and minority institutes. 
• Ministry: It was transferred from the Ministry of Minority Affairs to the Ministry of Education in 2021. 
• Two sub-schemes:
  • The Scheme for Providing Quality Education in Madrasas (SPQEM) – seeks to bring about qualitative improvement in Madrasas to enable Muslim children attain standards of the National education system in formal education subjects. 
  • Infrastructure Development of Minority Institutes (IDMI) – to augment Infrastructure in Private Aided/Unaided Minority Schools/Institutions in order to enhance the quality of education to minority children.
• The scheme is being implemented at the national level. 
• Both the schemes are voluntary in nature. 

Source: TH