Mumbai: The Mumbai civic body’s education department has said that televangelist Zakir Naik’s Islamic International School (IIS) in south Mumbai is operating without authorisation.
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s south Mumbai region education inspector B B Chavan, in a letter issued yesterday, stated that no school can run without the NOC (no objection certificate) of the local governing body, as defined under provisions of the Right to Education Act, 2009.
It was also mentioned in the letter that parents should not enrol their children in IIS.
However, it was not specified in it if the school has obtained the NOC.
Meanwhile, Samajwadi Party MLA Abu Asim Azmi, who recently took over the school, alleged that “there was a conspiracy to harass” the institution’s management.
The school, which has around 135 students and conducts classes from nursery to class X, was taken over by Azmi’s Niyaz Minority Education and Welfare Trust.
“The school is being run on the same lines (as earlier) with only some changes, including in its name and management. I have taken the premises on rent and have done nothing to invite the fury of the education department,” said Azmi, who is the legislator from Mumbai’s Mankhurd Shivaji Nagar Assembly constituency.
However, he also said that the school management would get in touch with the education department and find out if any more permissions are required to run it.
Notably, the Maharashtra government had in December last year informed the parents of the students of IIS that it would either be shut or brought under a new management.
Besides the IRF, Naik is also the founding trustee of the IRF Educational Trust and the Islamic Dimensions Trust.
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