jaipur madrasas in rajasthan known for imparting religioncentric education and little else are now poised to use digital means to teach a variety of subjects to students twenty seven madrasas in bikaner district on wednesday got equipped with smart tv sets and hard disks with content of all the subjects taught in regular schoolsstudents attending these madrasas learn subjects such as science and mathematics apart from their islamic religious studies in a unique initiative to modernize madrasas the district administration of bikaner has provided them smart tv sets that were collected from donorsthese 27 madrasas are among 600 schools which have been provided the smart tv sets these madrasas impart not only religious education but also modern education just like any other school since these madrasas are registered with rajasthan madrasa board the government provides them para teachers on contractual basis the smart tvs will help these institutions impart quality education said district minority welfare officer shehzad ahmed many of these 27 madrasas have a single teacher and a shortage of subject teachers he addeddonors played a key role in making the smart tv sets available in the educational institutes under the governments digital initiative for quality education diqe smart tvs and hard disks were distributed to madrasas in bikaner district by multiple donors this aims at enhancing the education process of madrasa students through digital learning platformsthese madrasas and other schools will now be playing content from the hard drives onto the smart tvs according to a timetable students questions will be collected and addressed by a teacher from the same school for classes 6 to 12 said officials