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The paper is dealing on access to education of Muslims in general and Muslim women in particular. Census 2011 of India on educational level by religious community and gender has shown that 42.7% of Muslims in India are illiterate. Similarly, more than half of the total Muslim women are illiterate. This is the highest illiteracy rate for any single religious community in the country, while the illiteracy rate for the entire population taken together is 36.9%. Muslims are the only community to have an illiteracy rate higher than the national rate among all communities. For Hindus, the figure stands at 36.3%, the second highest proportion of illiterate people. Literacy rates are highest among Jains, at 84.7%, followed by Christians (74.3%), Buddhists (71.8%) and Sikhs (67.5%). The purpose of the study is to highlight the measures and schemes for Muslims women education in particular and Muslims in general. Though there have been many studies on the Madrasa education in India; however, there are very few who focus exclusively upon the Girls� Madrasas in India. The reasons are manifold � patriarchal mindset of the society and scant regard to the girls� education by the parents in particular and Muslim society in general. In addition to these factors, as there are few Muslim women who are engaged in higher education and research, the issue of gender-disaggregated Madrasas.