There certainly is a need to regularize education in these kinds of religious institutions. They should include the government syllabus and additionally teach the religious texts they seem fit. This should be followed even in sanskrit schools.

Their numbers also matter. The government should take care that most of the children of any religious community (are able to) go to secular institutions. A small percentage of children going to religous schools is ok. In the case of Madrasas, the funding part is also important. In many situations, they are funded by the most radical elements in the Middle East and they completely discourage teaching anything except the Islamic curricula. Sprouting of new institutions with such funding must be watched. They already have problems in north India and Pakistan because of this kind of education, compounded in part by the lack of sufficient government schools for those poor muslim families with lots of children living in ghettos and hardly mixing with the rest of the population.

In general, they talk about regularizing Madrasa education in our place and making sure the students also learn the governemnt syllabus. But they must also keep the numbers in order - either close down those in excess or convert them into secular schools. But then, everything boils down to politics, votes and elections; who can advise a minority now??

hemu's concern may not be warrented in this piece of news, but it can be seen in a larger picture. Is it necessary to give a religious twist to every social work you do, why not fund an institution that provides secular education? However, it's most likely that there are none in the village concerned. So who is to blame??