With barely 2-3 percent of Muslims graduating and hardly 2-2.5 percent getting jobs in the government or private sector, the plight of the community in Maharashtra is worse than that of the OBCs or the Marathas, making a strong case to provide quotas in jobs and education for impoverished Muslims. In order to highlight the plight of the community, the Maulana Vichar Manch president Hussain Dalwai, ex-MP, has convened a national-level Muslim Rights Conference here on Saturday.
Addressing media persons, Dalwai said that though Muslims comprise around 11.5 percent of Maharashtra’s population, their proportion in education and jobs is minimal. He added that the number of Muslims living Below the Poverty Line (BPL) was the highest among all other communities and the Muslim community remains backward.
He said that nearly 75 percent of children in the age group of 6-14 drop out of school within the first few years and barely 2-3 percent are able to graduate or pursue higher education. Consequently, they hold hardly 2-2.5 percent of the jobs in the government and private sector.
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Dwelling on the historical aspects at the national level, Dalwai said the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had set up the Dr. Gopal Singh Commission with the late Dr. Rafiq Zakari as a member, and he first proved the decline of the Muslim society with correlational statistics and authentic data.
“After that, a 15-point program was announced for the Muslim community, but was never implemented, so there was no improvement in their social, academic, and economic levels,” Dalwai said.
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