Quota for Indian Muslims in jobs, education need of the hour

At a time when the Supreme Court has given the go ahead for 27 percent quota for to Other Backward Classes in central educational institutions, the question of reservation for Muslims comes up naturally. Muslims as a whole are more deprived than most of the OBC’s included in the category. If there was any iota of confusion in this regard, it was removed first by Sachar Committee report. Later a more important body, Justice Mishra Commission recommended quota for minorities demanding 10 percent quota for Muslims. The so called-self proclaimed secular United Progressive Alliance (UPA) that rules the country has failed to table the Mishra Commission report, let alone the question of its implementation. It is time that the UPA government takes some concrete steps towards Muslims’ upliftment instead of mere rhetoric that it has mastered only too well. Here in the following article Syed Ubaidur Rahman, editor Khabrein.info, discusses the long-standing demand for quota for Muslims in jobs and education.
The issue of reservation for Muslims in India is almost always opposed by a number of organizations in the country despite the fact that even a number of well to do communities get benefit of reservation in different states of the country. The million-dollar question is why some political parties oppose Muslim reservations? Several Muslim leaders are of the view that anti-Muslim feeling dominates their minds. They are least bothered about Muslims’ backwardness as they regard Muslims as outsiders and responsible for destruction of Hindu temples earlier. (Thanks to constant anti-Muslim propaganda by far-right media and the RSS)
Muslims account for approximately 15 percent of India’s population. A vast number of Indian Muslims are of indigenous origin. But most of them live below the poverty line and day-by-day their economic position is declining. There is a large-scale discrimination against them. Economically and educationally they are the most backward community in India. And the government of India doesn’t provide reservation to them in jobs and other fields.

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