lucknow the uttar pradesh madrassa education board upmeb has allowed all institutions whether registered or not with it to hold preprimary classes in their premises till now the board was silent on admissions to preprimary classes the decision was taken following reports that many madrasas were already running such classes on their campuses the board has however clarified that the expenses for such classes will have to be borne by the madrassa itself in order dated may 9 issued by registrar upmeb the board stated that it was unanimously decided that preprimary classes should be allowed in all madrassa at present there are 16513 recognised madrassas in up and over 7500 unregisteredthe order further stated that all arrangements including infrastructure adequate teachers security education of students will be taken care of by madrassas the state wont provide any kind of fundspeaking to toi iftikhar ahmad javed chairperson upmeb said since 2021 there have been discussions to regularize the preprimary classes operating in madrassas as scores of institutions were running the classes due to demand of parents therefore after a lot of brainstorming it was finally decided to legalize the preprimary classes the decision was unanimousthe government wont provide any kind of funds to madrassas for running preprimary schools he added