Assam intends to shut itsremaining madrassasafter having already converted those that used to be funded by the state into general schools because there is no need for any such religious Education in new India, chief ministerHimanta Biswa Sarmasaid on Thursday in poll-bound Karnataka.
What Assam needs are schools, colleges and universities to produce doctors, engineers and other professionals to serve the state and the country, Sarma told a gathering at the inauguration of a Light-and-Sound show on Chhatrapati Shivaji in Belagavi.