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MMERC’s new branch of English Diploma for madrasa graduates
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brahim Bhawani ITI, Vadodra, Gujarat is going to open a new branch for Diploma in English Language & Literature (DELL) course, within its campus, in the coming academic year with affiliation and academic assistance from Markazul Ma’arif Education & Research Centre (MMERC), Mumbai. DELL is a two year diploma course specially designed for madrasa graduates in 1994 by MMERC headed by Maulana Badruddin Ajmal, which is now successfully going on in ten other places in various states of India. This decision was taken jointly by Usman Ghani Memon, the president of Ibrahim Bhawani ITI and Maulana Burhanuddin Qasmi, the director of Markazul Ma’arif Education & Research Centre, in a meeting
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held in 4 May 2014 in Vadodra. 25 more students were selected for this new centre through the joint entrance exam along with Markaz-e-Islami Education & Research Centre (MIERC), Ankleshwar, Gujarat; Jamia Islamia Jalalia, Hojai, Assam; Institute for Higher Studies (IHS), Jamia Nagar, New Delhi and Al- Ma’hadul Islami, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. The common entrance exam was held at Jamiatus Shaikh Hussain Ahmad al-Madani Deoband, Uttar Pradesh on 15 and 16 May 2014. Following the written and oral exams a list of total 100 finalist students was published at www.deoband.net for all 5 centers along with another list of waitlisters.