The government is considering closing down a ‘dormant’ Madrassa Reforms Project that President Pervez Musharraf had pledged would modernise religious schools, official sources told Daily Times on Thursday.Of the total Rs 5.76 billion funds that the project began with, only Rs 223 million have been spent in five years. They told Daily Times that an evaluation committee of the Planning Commission had recommended closing down the project. The project was aimed at helping 1.5 million students studying in 8,000 madrassas across the country, but the government could reach out only to 468 religious schools. The government had planned to recruit 32,000 formal teachers to bring the parallel education system into the mainstream, but could only hire 2,291 in five years. Only 50,000 students passed out of these seminaries in five years, the sources said. “The federal government had released funds to provinces but they did not provide utilisation reports.