A two-day Muslim Education Conference to discuss issues relating to vocational and technical education for community students, education for girls, will be organised in Mumbai from May 29.
The conference will be inaugurated by Vice President Hamid Ansari.
Union Minister for Minority Affairs K Rahman Khan will deliver a key note address at the event to be held at the Mumbai University complex at Kalina in Santa Cruz, conference organiser Maulana Azad Vichar Manch president Hussain Dalwai told reporters here today.
The findings of Sachar Committee report on education of Muslims are shocking, which claimed that the community was lagging behind and therefore the onus is on them (Muslims) to enhance the standard of education, Dalwai said.
The conference will deal with vocational and technical education for community students, education for girls, challenges before Muslim educational institutions, and way out and problems of Muslim OBCs and dalits, he added.
–PTi