Mansooruddin Faridi/Delhi

In a era when youth belonging to economically weaker sections find the cost of coaching for entrance examination to their dream courses prohibitive, many Muslim organizations across India are helping the aspirant doctors, engineers and civil servant to clear rather difficult entrance examinations.

The recent result of the National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET) 2021 is no different; the number of Muslims clearing this examination to get admissions into the Medical colleges and ultimately oursue the profession has been the highest ever.

The credit for this trend must also go to organisations like Al-Ameen Institution in West Bengal that has sent 510 students be these colleges. These students have been coached in 70 branches spread across 20 districts of Bengal.

M. Nurul Islam,the founder of the institution, who has had a long struggle to bring Muslims into the national mainstream and to address their backwardness, is the man behind this mission.

With his initiative and planning, Muslims saw new avenues opening up and a gradual and steady transformation in the field of education for the community in West Bengal.

Al-Ameen Mission has been a great support to the students from the backward classes in the society.

There is an interesting story behind the great success of Al-Ameen Mission in NEET. Speaking to Awaz-the Voice, Al-Ameen's partner Nurul Islam says that this time the NEET result has been the best so far. This is remarkable since due to Covid-19 pandemic, the coaching was imparted online. He said, “Surprisingly, we have had tremendous success. The negative effects of the Corona period had no effect on our mission. Actually, the tabs we gave to the children for the coaching class could not be used for anything other than the preparation of NEET. This played a very important role in the final results.”

Nurul Islam said after three decades of hard work the mission's is seeing its dream come true. He says, “we hope next year’s results will be a further improvement. We have been trying to give opportunity to the poor students and those from the backward sections to rise in life; they sufffer due to lack of resources.”

Noor-ul-Islam said that the mission was to provide basic facilities to the needy students and they have achieved a lot so far. It all started with zakat money, but today the institution is getting funds from various prganisations and individual donations.

Many people have also given them land to build hostels and colleges.

Tauheed Murshid, a student from Malda has emerged as the topper with 690 marks (All India Ranking 472). Around 1,800 students sat for the NEET examination this year.

Al-Ameen Mission said in a statement that at least 500 to 550 of these students will have the opportunity to pursue medical education. Most of them come from backward districts of the state. There are 139 candidates from Murshidabad and 89 from Malda.

Apart from these, 50 students are from South 24 Parganas, 50 Birbhum, 33 North 24 Parganas, 25 Burdwan, 24 Nadia, 16 North Dinajpur, 15 Dinajpur, 15 Howrah and 12 Hooghly. to Hugley. Bankura, 10 from East Madnapur, 8 from Kochbahar, 7 from West Madnapur, 3 from Kolkata, 2 from Prolia and some other districts.

Al-Ameen Mission, headquartered in Howrah, has so far been credited with producing more than 3,500 doctors (MBBS and BDS) and 3,000 engineers, apart from several researchers, administrative officials, faculty and professors.

The organization teaches 17,000 residential students and has over 3,000 teachers as well as non-teaching staff. The main campus of Al-Ameen Mission is located at Khalatpur (Odi Narayanpur) in Howrah district of West Bengal.

Presently, about 6838 students are getting 40 percent semi-free and 4257-25 percent students have completely free student facilities from the mission.

The mission was established at least 70 km away from Kolkata, has now grown into a tenacious tree with 70 branches. It’s playing an important role in removing the educational backwardness of Muslims in Bengal.

Today it is the biggest name among Muslim educational institutions in West Bengal since 1987.

Nurul Islam said that the important thing is that most of the students who qualify for NEET from Al-Ameen Mission are from very poor background and weaker sections of the society. It is the success of our endeavor, as we develop their abilities, develop their intelligence and provide them with a good environment so that they can perform at their best."

 

“We use the wealth of Zakat and Sadaka to achieve our goal and play our part in nation building. We urge community members to support our efforts,” it says in its mission statement.

Al-Ameen Mission has won many awards for its outstanding work in the field of education in West Bengal. He is the winner of The Telegraph School Award for Excellence in 2002 and 2009. The Mission has been awarded the Telegraph School Award for Outstanding Academic Performance in Competitive Examinations in 2004 and Certificate of Honor in 2005, 2006 and 2008.

The West Bengal Board of Madrasa Education's Begum Rakia Award was also given in 2010 for her contribution to the social and educational development of the minority community in West Bengal.

In addition to formal education, students of Al-Ameen Mission excel every year in joint entrance examinations in medical and engineering.

This institution now hosts over 3,000 students in both boys' and girls' hostels.

Nurul Islam said, 'Education will play an important role in the economic development of Muslims. We are working hard to ensure that more and more Muslim children are not deprived of their education and their financial resources.

Nurul Islam said that the important thing is that most of the students who qualify for NEET from Al-Ameen Mission are from very poor background and weaker sections of the society. It is the success of our endeavor, as we develop their abilities.