(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Mohammad Bonyadi told us that in the current year, 5 million students and ministry staff will sign up for participating in the National Quran Memorization Campaign (Noor Plan).
“In the first year of implementing the plan (last year), 3.5 million individuals registered to take part and some 2 million of them took the exams.”
He noted that registration for the plan began in early December and is still going on.
Director general of the education ministry’s Quran, Prayer and Etrat Department added the department will make every efforts to materialize the demands by the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution about training 10 million memorizers of the Holy Quran.
He said the required books for teaching Quran memorization have been written and 5000 Quran teachers have been recruited to facilitate training memorizers of the Quran in Quran schools.
‘All the potentials of the ministry have been used to best implement the National Quran Memorization Campaign,” he underlined.
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