Raipur: Chhattisgarh's Bharatiya Janata Party government on Monday informed the state assembly that it has no scheme in existence to provide scholarship to students enrolled in madrasas.

"There are 364 madrasas in operation in the state, the teachers of these madrasas get grant from the central government's Scheme for Providing Quality Education in Madrasas (SPQEM)," Education Minister Brijmohan Agrawal informed the house.

"But the state government has no scheme to provide scholarship to students studying in madrasa schools," Brijmohan said in a written reply to a Congress member who wanted to know what the government was doing for madrasa students. IANS