it is agood initiative volunteered by madrassas and should be followed by all other religious and socio-religious groups upholding the the idea of india as theocartic state. neverthless, this initiative solves only negligible part of problem by scrutinizing the admission. but it must be remembered that due to economic and financial constraints, mainly, poor muslims are sending their children to madrassas. children of well to do families either go to madrassa at very tender age or do not go at all.therefore, what is neede to be looked into by the heads of madrassas is to give their students, inputs enough to ward off any attempt by militant organisations to recruit the freshers coming out of madrassas. the other important part of the problem is the militancy by other groups such as klf, ulfa, bodo, ltte, vhp, mcc, ipf etc etc who never happen to see madrassas. notwithstanding the above problems, the effort by madrassas of varanasi should be wlcome by one and all.