By TCN News,
Patna: Indian Muslim expatriates have opened a Learning Centre in Patna to help Muslim students preparing for entrance exams for IIT, Medical etc. The center will have rich resource materials, free computer and internet access. The centre has been set up with the joint efforts of Indian Muslim Educational Foundation of North America (IMEFNA) and Bihar Anjuman.
The center would help the students preparing for competitive exams like engineering (including IIT) and medical entrance exams, in their studies, by providing free computer and internet access apart from necessary books, guides and useful materials.
IMEFNA and Bihar Anjuman have also announced to provide scholarship to the students who clear their exams.
The centre will be sponsored by IMEFNA and jointly managed by Muslim Education and Social Welfare Trust, Patna, and Bihar Anjuman’s Patna chapter.
IMEFNA, a Chicago based NGO has been helping students with scholarships to pursue post 12th education, under their Upward-Bound program. They tied with Hyderabad based organizations to provide assistance to students of Andhra Pradesh also.
Bihar Anjuman (http://www.biharanjuman.org/) has been trying to transform non-meritorious poor students into meritorious ones, send them to diploma engg courses, and finance their studies until their employment. They have established 21 coaching centres so far in Bihar and Jharkhand.
The inauguration of the centre featured dignitaries from politics and community. The Chief Guest was Dr. Ranjan Prasad Yadav. Member of Parliament from Patna. Other guests included Mr. Shayam Rajak, Minister of Food and Civil Supply (Govt of Bihar), Retd. Major General. Waseem Khairwi, Secretary IMESWT, Professor Shah Shamim Muaami, Sajjada Nasheen, Khanqah Munnamia, Patna City, Maulana Anisur Rahman Qasmi, Secretary, Imarat-e-Sharia, Bihar, Jharkand and Orrisa, and Chairman of Bihar State Hajj Committee.
Addressing the gathering, IMEFNA’s founder-chairman, Khurshid Mallick presented an introduction of IMEFNA’s objectives and threw some light on its activities focused on technical education of Muslim youth. He also described the purpose of this New Learning Centre. He declared that this centre would host a library that would cater to the need of a large number of the students of the area.
Enam Khan, the convenor of Bihar Anjuman’s Patna chapter presented the vision, mission and objectives of Bihar Anjuman and RHBAR, its NGO. He explained how the currently functional 19 RAHBAR Coaching centres are helping the government school students to transform from non-meritorious levels to become engineers. He congratulated IMEFNA for this excellent initiative to help the meritorious students who cannot afford the modern facilities and books. He thanked IMEFNA, The Aligarh Forum, Aligarh Alumni Association of Washington DC, Charity Way Foundation, and the members of Bihar Anjuman’s online Forums for helping Bihar Anjuman in its mission.
Pune based trainer, Saeed Ahmed Sayyed, who has conducted more than 400 personality development workshops in 70 cities across India, highlighted the importance of making Muslim youth competitive in the professional world including defence services. “Our youth must contribute to every sphere of economy and in every govt service. Guiding them to achieve these goals is a noble task indeed. He lamented that Muslim youth lack in personality traits, despite being intelligent and hard-working; personality plays the most important role in the competitive world, he said.