Lucknow, Dec 7 (PTI) Several students enrolled in Kamil and Fazil courses at madrassas in Uttar Pradesh are now exploring new academic options after the Supreme Court struck down the state madrassa board’s authority to award these degrees, calling it a contravention of the UGC Act.

Around 32,000 students were enrolled in these courses across the state when the Supreme Court, on November 5 last year, deemed the Uttar Pradesh madarsa education board’s practice of awarding Kamil (graduate-level) and Fazil (postgraduate-level) degrees "unconstitutional", ruling that such authority lies only with universities regulated under the University Grants Commission (UGC) Act.

For Saqlain Raza, a Fazil first-year student at Madarsa Jamia Farooquia in Varanasi, the ruling has forced a major shift.

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