PNS/ DEHRADUN
The Uttarakhand Waqf Board set up the state’s first modern madrasa offering general education under the NCERT curriculum with Sanskrit as an optional subject besides Arabic. State Waqf board chairman Shadab Shams said that Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Modern Madrasa located in a Muslim majority area near Dehradun railway station had been developed at a cost of around Rs 50 lakh, adding that Sanskrit classes would start from the next academic session in March.
