Samastha Kerala Islam Matha Vidyabhyasa Board

Samastha Kerala Islam Matha Vidyabhyasa Board (SKIMVB) is a sub-organisation of Samastha Kerala Jam'iyyathul Ulama. Samastha Kerala Islam Matha Vidyabhyasa Board is the biggest Islamic educational board in Kerala. It has more than 10000 madrasas affiliated to this board. As of 2005, over a million students attended the schools run by SKIMVB. [ [http://www.hindu.com/2005/10/19/stories/2005101910030300.htm The Hindu : Kerala News : Samastha results today ] ]

History

Samastha Kerala Islamic Educational Board or Samastha Kerala Islam Matha Vidhyabhyasa Board, known as SKIMVB, was Samastha’s first sub-organisation. The run-up to the formation of the board started when Marhoom Sayyed Abdur Rahman Bafaqi Tangal drew the attention of the ulama in 1945, at the 16th conference of Samastha held at Karyavattam, to the urgent need of the organisation to take up a leading and active role in setting up Madrasas across the Kerala state. He suggested Samastha leaders to prepare a syllabus for primary religious education to be taught in One to Ten classes of Madrasa along with regular schooling. Later Mushawara meets and Ulama gatherings all seriously discussed Bafaqi Tangal’s suggestion. Finally, the 19th Samastha Conference held in March 1951 at Badagara, passed the historic resolution forming the educational board to meet the urgent need for a centralised Madrasa system. Marhoom Paravanna KPA Muhyiddin Kutty Moulavi was the founding chairman of the board. Six months later on September 17, 1951, at an important meeting at Valakkulam Puthupparamba Juma Masjid in the patronage of Moulana Abul Haqq Abdul Bari Musliyar Al-Baqawi (1981-1965) a 33-member first working committee of the SKIVB was constituted being Paravanna K.P.A. Muhyuddeen Kutty Musliyar the president and K.P. Usman Sahib the general secretary. In March 1952, the board called for application for Madrasa recognition, and the board working committee held on August 26, 1952 recognised first 10 Madrasas.

Recognition of Madrasas

The number of recognised Madrasas has been on an increase since then:
*Madrasa System set up by Samastha for primary religious education; 1956 (149), 1961 (746), 1966 (1838), 1971 (2694), 1976 (3586), 1986 (5648), 1991 (6440), 1996 (7003), 2001 (7865), 11/09/2006 (8491).

All the Madrasas have classes at least until fifth standard. Many Madrasas have classes up to 7th, 10th and even +1 and +2 classes. The board has spread the message of its model Madrasas to states and nations like Andaman Nicobar Islands, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Lakshadeep, Maharashtra, Malaysia, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Oman. It conducts systematic training classes, Hizb, Lower, Higher and Secondary examinations to make the teachers more capable and well equipped. There are Inspectors (Mufatish) that visit every Madrasa, they examine the standard of education, check up the physical condition and atmosphere, give necessary recommendations to teachers and the managing committee and report the functioning of each Madrasa to the board. There are six Qura’n reciters to conduct Hizb classes. There is also an association of Madrasa inspectors named Samastha Kerala Jam’eyyat ul-Mufathisheen. The board directly hold centralised Public Examinations in the 5th, 7th, and 10th classes. It has so far issued 2,039,021 fifth class certificates, while the number is 603,524 in 7th and 45,994 in 10th.

Other Activities

The Board had not concentrated its attention only with religious education but had entered in to material field also. Crescent Boarding Madrasa & the residential higher secondary school at Velimukku (Malappuram district) Crescent public school at Pudiyangady (Kozhikkode district) M E A Engineering college at Pattikkad are well established institution run by the board.

Current board members

*TKM Bava Musliar (President)
*KK Abdulla Musliar (Vice Presieent)
*Cherussry Zainudheen Musliyar. (Vice Presieent)
*KT Manu Musliar. (Gen Secretary)
*VPM Abdul Azeez master. ( Secretary)
*TM Bappu Musliar ( Secretary)
*Sayyid Hyderali Shihab. (Treasurer.) [ [http://www.thehindu.com/2007/11/13/stories/2007111365080300.htm The Hindu : Kerala News : Sunni group charges police with ‘bias’ ] ]

References

External links

* [http://samastha.net/ samastha.net]