Azhagiya Kadan IAS Academy Chennai

About Azhagiya Kadan IAS Academy Chennai, Moulana Shamsudheen Qasimi, chief imam of Makkah Masjid on Anna Salai

The Azhagiya Kadan Arakkattalai has taken a major initiative to take up this tremendous task of training Muslims Graduates for civil services examination.

The full-fledged coaching started from February 2012.

The Cell has one Library-cum-Study Room, two class rooms for subject lectures and group discussions, Administrative Office, Dining Hall and partially furnished 6 rooms for candidates.

Class rooms and library has all other teaching aid facilities like Laptops, Computers, Television, Projectors, CCTV and Mike System etc.

Azhagiya Kadan I.A.S Academy for the benefit of Muslim community. This academy has been started with the intention for the upliftment of Muslim Youth, who lack behind in the field of Indian civil services.

Mission OF Azhagiya Kadan IAS Academy Chennai

Azhagiya Kadan I.A.S. academy provides best of the faculties for civil services coaching in an Islamic environment, will inculcate with Islamic ethics so in future the candidates of the academy will be pious and God fearing I.A.S/I.P.S officers who are free from evils like bribe, corruption and misuse of office and serve for the betterment of Muslim community and India as a whole.

Student of academy run by Chennai mosque cracks IAS
Azhagiya Kadan IAS Academy Chennai, At a time when Muslim organisations and political parties are holding rallies and public meetings seeking to increase reservation in government jobs and educational institutions in the state and Centre, a mosque in Chennai has taken a different route to achieve this.

Moulana Shamsudheen Qasimi, chief imam of Makkah Masjid on Anna Salai is a proud man today as his efforts have borne fruit in the first attempt. He started a training academy for civil services aspirants within the premises of the mosque. Azhagiya Kadan IAS Academy was started on the third floor of the mosque with 28 aspirants in 2011. Today, one of its students, Mohammed Ashraf JS, has cracked the UPSC examination in his first attempt with a rank of 1,032.

Shamsudheen says that no other mosque in the country has a civil services exam training academy inside its premises. The academy provides coaching, food, accommodation, books and study materials to students free of cost. It spends more than Rs 40 lakh per year to run the academy, and all funding comes from members of the community.
Ashraf, who was working for Chennai Metro Rail Limited, quit his job in 2012 to make his childhood dream of joinng the civil services come true. Ashraf, who finished civil engineering in Anna University in 2011 is from Karaikudi in Sivaganga district, where his father runs a welding workshop. After completing his graduation, he joined CMRL for a salary of Rs 28,000 a month.

He was one of the 28 students shortlisted from the 1,200 applications the academy received. He joined the academy in August 2012 and took the UPSC exam in May 2013. Though he was ranked as 1,032 when the UPSC examination results were announced on Thursday, it is seen as an achievement by the community members. The academy is expected to play a huge role in motivating young Muslims in future.

Shamsudeen said, "Muslim students should be motivated by Ashraf's achievement. We want more students to come forward and join the academy. Right now, we have 50 students studying here. Next year, we plan to take in 100 students."

Ashraf said he was able to crack the exam only because of the academy and the environment it provided. "Muslim parents should change their mindset of sending children to foreign countries as labour. Instead, they should give them a good education. We have only 2% representation in IAS. It can be increased only through education and making use of academies like the one I studied in," Ashraf said.

Students who want to enroll for the next (2014-15) batch Azhagiya Kadan IAS Academy Chennai , can register online at www.akias.in from June 15 to August 12.

About Azhagiya Kadan IAS Academy Chennai In Hindu Paper

Azhagiya Kadan IAS Academy Chennai, functioning from the mosque complex for over a year, wants to reiterate the message that securing adequate space in the administrative structure alone can bring in desirable change in the socio-economic conditions of Muslims.

“The door for political empowerment is closed and we are victims of tokenism in politics. So I have decided to open the other door,” said Moulana S. Shamsudeen Qasinin, Chief Imam of the Masjid and the founder of the Academy. The spark for starting the institution came during his Haj pilgrimage a couple of years ago. “Many VIPs from Tamil Nadu discussed the performance of Muslims in local body polls. But I was not impressed. I talked about a different kind of empowerment, as the community in Tamil Nadu has not produced enough IAS or IPS officers,” he said.

Mr Shamsudeen Qasinin said that before going ahead with his plans, he studied the reasons behind the failure of a few other similar academies and decided not to make the same mistakes.

In 2012, the academy trained 30 aspirants and this year 40 students are taking lessons. Ninety per cent of them are engineering graduates. The students get free food, accommodation and coaching. The patrons spend close to Rs 2.5 lakh every month to run the academy.

“We organise motivation camps in all districts. The aspirants should clear an entrance examination. Candidates securing more than 40 per cent marks are shortlisted and final selection is done through interview,” said A. Arif, the academy’s administrative officer.

The academy sources teachers from Shankar IAS Academy, a reputed institution. Classes for preliminary examinations are held in the masjid, while those who are going to take the main examinations regularly visit Shankar IAS academy in Chennai.

“I decided not to take up job offers from Cognizant and Infosys after realising the futility of engineering education,” said J. Mohamed Meerasahib, who has completed preliminaries of UPSC and TNPSC Group 1. “All I acquired was just bookish knowledge and nothing practical.”

H. Akbar Ali, who also cleared the UPSC preliminary and N. Jasim, now preparing for the main examination of the TNPSC Group 1, also agreed that engineering education never gave them a sense of fulfilment.

Hailing from Udankudi in Thoothukudi district, Akbar Ali, son of a cook, said like all children he wanted to become a Collector and hoped the academy could help him achieve the dream.

Mr. Qasinin said he was also planning to start separate classes for Muslim girls. “Probably we will be in a position to do it next year. I need to make proper arrangement as security of girls is paramount,” he said.Azhagiya Kadan IAS Academy Chennai

Achievement of Azhagiya Kadan IAS Academy Chennai

Alhamdulilah, with the blessings of Allah Subhanawatala we have stepped into our second successful year and our academy havesuccessfully produced impressive results in the last academic year

Alhamdhulillah, We’re pleased to inform you that, Mohammed Ashraf, a student of our Azhagia Kadan IAS Academy has cleared the UPSC Civil Services Examination, 2013. Mohammed Ashraf hails from Karaikudi, Sivagangai district. After completing Higher Secondary education with flying colours in Alagappa Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Karaikudi in 2007, Ashraf went on to pursue his Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering in Anna University, CEG Campus. Awarded with the Bachelor Degree in Civil Engineering, 2011, Ashraf started preparations for Civil services examination in our Academy. Alhamdhulillah, Mohammed Ashraf cleared Civil Services, 2013. Jazakkallah Khair, for all your prayers and duas. We wish Mohammed Ashraf for his future endeavors, In shaa Allah.

• Name of the Examination	No of student
  UPSC - Interview	1
  UPSC - Main  Exam	1
  UPSC - Preliminary Exam	3
  IFS - Main  Exam	1
  TNPSC - Preliminary Exam	3
  SSC - Preliminary Exam	5
  TNPSC - Group IV	10

Azhagiya Kadan IAS Academy Chennai

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