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Recruitment of minority in government services grew little in past 6 years

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Pointing out relative deprivation of the Muslim community for the first time in 2006, Justice Rajinder Sachar committee had stated that the Muslims constitute 14 per cent of India's population but only one out of 25 university student is Muslim and their share in bureaucracy is just 2.5 per cent.

To overcome the deficit, the state and central ministries have been advised to give special consideration in recruitment to the candidates belonging to the minority communities through the PM's special 15-point programme. A deeper analysis into the recruitment statistics however reveals things changed little in past six years.

Share of five minority communities-Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Parsis in the recruitment of central government services, public sector undertaking companies, banks and paramilitary between 2006-2011 forces grew from 6.93% to 10.18% but dropped to 6.24% in 2011-12, says the statistics compiled by the Amitabh Kundu committee sourcing the data from the Union Ministry of Minority Affairs. The Committee was appointed by the UPA government last year to evaluate the socio-economic conditions of the Minorities in the post Sachar period.

The minorities constitute 18.5% of the Indian population. Data for the Muslims was not available separately. Jain community was included in the minorities later.

Though the number of candidates belonging to minority communities who bagged the job in central government and PSUs grew from 12,182 to 18,379 in past six years, their share among the total recruits remained below 7% in 2011-12 of which share of Muslims is expected to be around 4%.

Railways emerged as the best employer for the minorities with increasing share of minorties employees from 2.67% to 12.53% in the post Sachar period. On the other hand, share of the minority recruitments in the PSUs and the paramilitary forces fell from 11.86% to 6.91% and 9.49% to 5.60% in the same period.

"The available data shows there is hardly any difference in the share of recruitment of minority communities which constitute 2/5 of the India's population. Since Muslim community is much more backward than the Sikhs and Christians, we peg that the share of the Muslims in the new recruitment would be less than 4%," says Prof Abdul Shaban, Deputy director of Tata Institute of Social Sciences who is also a member of the Kundu committee.

When asked for comments, Devendra Fadnavis, BJP chief, Maharashtra, says, "Till we look up at the minorities as vote bank, they would never be uplifted. A conscious effort is needed to bring the community into the mainstream which was not done by the UPA government."

Shabbir Ansari, President, Maharashtra Muslims OBC organization: "Of 15-points which include increased job opportunities, scholarships, opening schools in Muslim dominated areas, recognition of madrassa and elimination of discrimination, only scholarship scheme was implemented to some extent. The whole Muslim upliftment program is an eye-wash for which Congress and allies like NCP, SP, BSP, JDU responsible who treated minorities only as votebank."

Defending his party, Nizamuddin Rayeen, head of the minority cell of Congress said, "Congress-led states have fared better than others. Maharashtra recently gave 5% reservation to the community while Muslims are in worst condition in the BJP led state like Gujarat and MP."

"The new government must take up this issue to fill the gaps to uplift the community," says Prof Shaban.

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