Sunday, November 19, 2006

Muslims in India: Facts and Figures

Following compilation is based on the recent study on education and socio-economic condition of Muslims In India, conducted by India's Prime Minister's high level committee, headed by a retired Justice Rajinder Sachar.

Google Sachar Report on the Net for more details.


Total Muslim Population in India: 13.4% (Population of India is little over 1 Billion)

* 94.9% of Muslims in Below Poverty Line (BPL)
* Muslims in Jails 35%, out of total number of inmates at state and federal prisons.
* Muslims high school passed: 7.2%
* Muslims enrolled in colleges: 6.5%
* Muslims Graduate in Rural areas is between 0.8% to 1.3%, Muslims Graduate in Urban areas is 6.1%, just 1.2 per cent are post-graduates.
* 54.6% Muslims in villages and 60 per cent in urban areas, have never attended schools
* Government Staff 6.4%, Police Services 3.3%, Administration services 2.2%, Foreign services 1.6% & Total labour force 10%.
* Muslims in Judiciary 8% & Judges 2.7%.
* 60.2% Muslims who lives in rural areas do not have any land.
* Just 2.1% of Muslim farmers have tractors. With 15,25,000 tractors, India ranks No.4 after US, Japan and Italy.
* A mere 1% own handpumps for safe/clean drinking water...
* While only 3.2 per cent of Muslims get subsidized loans, just 1.9 per cent of the community benefit from the Antyodaya Anna Yojana Scheme, a program meant to prevent starvation among the poorest of poor by providing food grains at a subsidized rate.

Some of the important observations made by the Rajinder Sachar committee:

The committee found shocking instances of discrimination against the community. These include cases of Muslims not getting loans from even nationalized banks and finding it difficult to sell or buy property.

“There is an implicit diktat that loans should not be given in specific areas dominated by Muslims because of the high probability of default”, the committee observed after its visit to Rajasthan between August 22 and 24 last year.

The committee also found inadequate number of government schools in the Muslim-dominated areas contributing to the low number of Muslim boys and girls attending the schools.

Should the Muslims of India need special benefits? 91% said NO and 9% YES - as per the national survey.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

When the governments were contemplating to extend Reservations to OBCs we were all very much concerned and we thought of a platform, Samana Nyayam to conduct an intellectual discourse and wage a campaign about injustice or reverse discrimination for some so-called forward castes. We left that mid-way.
Worse things are happening now, like reservations for OBCs in our premier educational institutions even in private sector, and most shamelessly exempting minority educational institutions from the obligation of Reservation for OBCs. A much worse thing is about to be foisted upon us.

The Rajendra Sachar Committee has collected some facts and is so presenting them to make the Hindus squirm in shame. The flavor of this report is that Hindus have a bias against Muslims, Hindus are discriminating against them, Hindus are keeping them poor, Hindus are making them insecure, they are deprived of education and opportunities for development; and these are sought to be proved by facts like 15% Muslim population having between 2% and 5% representation only in government services etc. It is silent about the numerous minority colleges and huge money they are making by selling seats. They gloss over the fact that the average number of children in any social or economic group for Muslims is higher than that of Hindus; that Muslim girls are not encouraged to go to schools, and the leadership is wanting madrassas and urdu schools, and that these are the reasons for their poor performance. The Sachar Committee wants us to forget that Muslims were a ruling class for hundreds of years; they foisted Persian as the language of the government, had 90% of the jobs for Muslims, and that for example, in the Nizam's state Muslims were the rulers until 1948 and 10% Muslims enjoyed 90% of the jobs and not Telugu or Marathi or Kannada was the language of instruction from primary to even the University level but urdu was the language in schools, colleges and in government and in the High Court.

The Sachar Committee Report is understood to be recommending massive financial allocations specifically for Muslims including subsidies to madrassas which teach Koran in Arabic. We are witnessing competitive bidding of 'secular' parties promising 5% reservation, a mosque in every village, a darga in every mandal, urdu ghars, shadikhanas and even in totally Hindu majority cities, (like Vijayawada) Mayorships being given to Muslims.

There is a deliberate design, no longer a conspiracy but actual implementation to see that Hindus are finished, are reduced to second rate citizenship by a combination of minorities namely Muslims and Christians. Muslims are first offered all the privileges and special rights because if offered and not implemented, they would become violent, take to terrorism and destroy the government apparatus just as during Muslim League's direct action, on the 16th of August 1946 to terrorise the Hindus into accepting the partition of India . If Muslims are given, then there is nothing which can stop the Christians to demand their pound of flesh.

Hindus therefore are now under siege from jihadi terrorists, Christian proselytizers and both of these are backed by Marxists and various brands of communists and vote-seeking 'secular' parties competing with one another to ingratiate themselves with the minorities. The siege engine to breach and break up the Hindu society is caste. All the enemies of this country are united in pitting one Hindu caste against another and thus destroy the Hindu identity. Hindus' enemies are working hard to unite the minorities by religion and divide the majority by caste. this is their strategy. If the Sachar Committee's recommendations are implemented, India will be bled because we will be taxed to pay to produce more Muslims more terrorists more disrupters and more allies for the global Islamic umma. We will be required to pay for not only their education and businesses but even for propagation of their religions, for diversion of Hindu temples' funds as that is already happening.
We therefore appeal to you to come together, understand the implications of the Sachar Committee findings and recommendations and deliberate as to how we as Hindus in the only land that is India we have, we can live in dignity, security, peace and prosperity. We must chalk out a programme for public education and action

Anonymous said...

hello. I'm a hindu from india and i think you - the guy who left the last comment is a moron.

It's guys like you who spoil the good name of india. We've survived a couple of hundred years of everyone on earth invading us and survived. Don't think we need BS being spouted from you to save us.

last i heard a lot of "those" muslims were doing great things for us... remember Dr. Abdul Kalam, remember Aziz Premji....

What the fuck did YOU ever do for india.

People read posts from chaps like you and decide we must ALL be a bunch of intolerent buffons.

I don't agree with reservations either but not and this is important to me... NOT because of some kind of blind hate.

Me? I hate to think that you might actually be from my religion... Snotty bastard. go back to the rock you climbed out from under.

Anonymous said...

Muslims who feel discriminated should be provided help by govt. of india to go accross the border to pakistan.