By TCN News,
Guwahati: Delhi-based Human Welfare Foundation has felicitated 300 minority students and 3 minority schools in Assam with an aim to remove illiteracy from among the Muslim community in this northeast state of the country.
The students and the schools were felicitated in a function held on 10th October at Rabindra Bhawan in Guwahati.
Prof. K. A. Siddique Hassan, General Secretary of HWF addressed the gathering at the ceremony for the Award for Academic Excellence-2010 and said in some northern states people are educationally deprived and it is the root cause of poverty; even they are not getting basic amenities.
The report of Sachar Committee also confirmed that Muslims are educationally backward. Soon after the report of Sachar Committee, he discussed with many organization, community leaders, philanthropist, educationist and social activist and formed vision 2016 program under which he made an NGO also with a name of Human Welfare Foundation which is fulfilling the works and planning projects of vision 2016 in a real shape with about 50 NGOs of India, he explained.
Thereafter he decided to open schools in these places which will uplift poor section of the society especially minority.
“For this cause, I have chosen the idea of distributing Awards, Cash prizes and mementos to meritorious students who appeared in board examination. By such way the appearing students in board examination will also be encouraged to do better in their career,” he said.
HWF is going to organize awards for academic excellence in U.P., Bihar and Jharkhand this year also to cover a large number of Muslim students of the states.
The HWF felicitated 300 meritorious Muslim students of Assam and 3 best minority schools which are Hazrat Omar Model Academy, Howly, Al-Ameen Academy, Badarpur and Jeevan Jyoti Jatiya Bidlaya, Kayakuchi, Barpeta, Assam.