bareilly with up government proposing to merge various government departments and bring down their number by almost twothirds teachersrsquo association madarisearabia an organisation of madrassa teachers has recently written to up chief minister yogi adityanath to demand merger of up madrassa education board with up secondary education department up madrassa education board is currently part of minority affairs welfare department and the government is planning to merge minority welfare department with social welfare department the madrassa education board was part of the basic education department till 1996 but it was later merged with minority affairs welfare department the teachersrsquo association said if madrassa education board becomes part of secondary education it will improve the quality of education ldquowe have been opposing the inclusion of madrassa education board with minority affairs welfare department since 1996 as the only work of madrassas is to provide education it should be governed by officials related to the education department who are well aware of the policies issues and problems in the education sectorrdquo said wahidullah khan saeedi national general secretary teachersrsquo association madariseearabia ldquoup government is trying to improve the quality of madrassas but it can be only done when the board merges with secondary education department once it is done madrassas will get facilities like other schools and it will help in modernisation of madrassas it will raise the standard of educationrdquo said saeedi state government has proposed to merge 94 government departments into 37 for better efficiency and implementation of better public welfare schemes