Culture and Education
The Urdu Academy of Odisha, a wing of the Department of Culture, Government of Odisha is engaged in the propagation and popularization of the Urdu language in Odisha. Jamia Ashraful Uloom,the biggest Islamic seminary in the state run by Maulana Md. Farooque Qasmi is situated at Kendrapara town with a very large attractive campus with facilities of modern and traditional education with separate campuses for boys and girls running under the supervision of Al-Farooque Educational Trust, an educational and charitable registered trust established for the welfare and advancement of Muslims and the poor section of the state. Markazul Uloom, Sungda established in the 1940s by Maulana Syed Ismail Qasmi of Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind is a prominent centre of Deobandi Islamic learning in Odisha. .Besides that, there are also many other Barelvi Islamic Institutions run by Maulana Habibur Rahman in the state which also produce Islamic Scholars and Ulemas.
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