Awaz the voice

  In a pioneer attempt to address the problems of religious minorities, especially Muslims, the Hemanta Biswa Sarma government in Assam has come up with a novel idea of issuing “Minority certificates’ to all members of the religious communities. The decision taken by the Sarma cabinet on Sunday evening applies to six religious minority groups: Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, Buddhists, Jains, and Parsis. However, the move is directly aimed at the Muslims who are 34.22 percent of the population of the border state.   Also, Assam has the second largest population of Muslims in the country, the first being Jammu and Kashmir. The rate of growth of the Muslim population in the state is also the highest in the country.   Announcing the decision health minister Keshav Mahanta said the government has decided to ensure that genuine minorities in the state get benefits of government schemes and other facilities.   The Assam Minority Affairs Department that had recommended the move has welcomed the d

Riyaz Ahmed Jafar Shah is a teacher at the Iqra Urdu High School in Jalgaon, Maharashtra. However, he is not just another salaried employee but a real Guru who is devoted to his pupil’s development. Ahmed not only realized the loss of learning the children suffered during the Covid-19; he worked out a plan. If children can’t come to school, the school can reach children! He packed his tractor trolley with two blackboards, a science laboratory, models of mathematics, geography, and science, small library of Marathi, English, and Urdu language books. To crate an ambiance, he pasted the pictures of world-famous scientists on it, and lo and behold his school on wheels was ready.   Riyaz Ahmed attached the trolley of a tractor to his motorbike and moved it around. Housing his school inside the trolley, he moved around the places where his students lived and made them learn. People were awed by this simple yet painstakingly cobbled idea of a school. With the slogan " Taleem  must contin