Minority Ministry ad misinforms public, hoodwinks Muslims
Submitted by admin4 on 17 March 2010 - 4:24pm
By Syed Shahabuddin,
The full page Advertisement by the Ministry of Minority Affairs on 18 February, 2010 on its achievements under Prime Minister’s 15 Point Programme for the Welfare of the Minorities has been designed to misinform the public and to bluff the minorities and particularly hoodwink the Muslims. Indeed, the Advertisement conceals more than it reveals.
Religious minorities constitute clearly 20% of the national population, of which nearly 15% are Muslims. The Advertisement speaks repeatedly of ‘minority concentration districts ( MCD) but to cover up poor performance in Muslims concentration districts or their proportionate under-coverage the Advertisement gives no information about Muslim concentration districts. This deliberate omission is evident from the following item-wise analysis.
I. Bank Branches
1562 public sector bank branches are claimed to have been opened since 2007-08, but neither their location nor the community-wise break-up of the number of accounts and credit flow are revealed.
2. New Schools
8764 new schools are said to have been opened upto 30.09.09. But whether they are primary/ middle / secondary schools is not mentioned nor their number in Muslims areas nor the extent to which they cover school deficit compared to national norms.
3. Institutional Allocation
Increase in the Share capital of NMDFC and the corpus of Maulana Azad Education Foundation are given. But actual disbursement year-wise are not.
4. Multi-sectorial Devolvement Programmme
807.01 Crores are said to have been released to States/ UTs up to 01.01.2010 for 90 MCDs but readers are not informed of how much has been actually utilized and the programme taken up, district-wise.
5. Increase in Plan Provision for Ministry
It is well known that every year the Ministry has failed to utilize the allocation fully.
6. Earmarking of 15 % of Outlay for Muslims, Scheme-wise allocation and the number of total & Muslim beneficiaries are not provided
7. Awards of 22, 23,841Scholarships to Minority students
The status of awards to Muslim community, state-wise, is not given nor the number of scholarships & amounts which have been actually disbursed.
8. Indira Awas Yojana
9,29,141 Minority BPL families are said have benefited but district-wise or community-wise break-up is not given.
9. Swarn Jayanti Shahari Rojgar Yojana
1,46,090 beneficiaries form minorities are claimed but the number of Muslims is not given.
10. Swarn Jayanti Garam Swarojgar Yojna
4,75,253 persons form minorities are said to beneficiaries but the number of Muslims is not given.
11. Free Coaching
14,966 students have been coached at the cost of RS 20.75 crore but the break-up, course-wise, state-wise or community-wise are not given.
12. Recruitment of Minorities Government
The advertisement claims advance to 9.18 % share in recruitment in 2008-09 over one year but does not give the numbers total & of total & Muslim actually recruited in government or public sector, level-wise, Moreover, the cumulative representation of Muslims in any department or paramilitary force is not revealed nor their current % in the total.
Conclusion
The net impact of the advertisement confirms the doubts in the mind of the Muslims that they have made no real progress nor received their due share of development benefit or place in governance.
To remove the credibility gap, the AIMMM urges the Government that the statistics should be transparent and give both the overall picture of total & Muslim share representation, as well as the increase recorded in given year over the last year.
It is also suggested that to establish its credibility, the Ministry should publish brochure on progress made by community in 2009-10, under UPA II.
As it is, this advertisement only serves to provide material for anti-Muslim propaganda by the communal forces. That Muslims are being appeased.
(The writer is ex-MP and currently President of AIMMM has issued the following statement)
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some of the readers can file
some of the readers can file rti application or mr.shahabuddin himself,a diplomat can file a rti application to get the correct information. i hope he is reading this.
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Minority Ministry ad misinforms public, hoodwinks Muslims
Mr.Syed Shahabuddin has done well to note the Full Page Advertisement( 18 February) by Ministry of Minority Affairs Misinforms Public & Hoodwinks Muslims. I have always valued his unsparing support to the Jain Minority cause and therefore I am concerned to draw attention to another great drawback amounting almost to a fraud the omission of the Jain minority who are declared a minority in eight States amounting to 88% of their total population India from the benefit of sumptuous benefits announced under the Prime Minister’s 15-Point Plan.
I have always valued his comments in his article Indian Supreme Court Judgement Obiter Dicta Places Hindu Religion Above All Religions on the Supreme Court judgment in Bal Patil & Anr. v. Union of India & Ors. decided on 08/08/2005
published in the Milli Gazette Nov.3, 2005 and The Tribune, Nov.25, 2005 :
"His historiography is full of flaws...All constitutional safeguards and assurances under the Constitution and in international law shall be reduced to zero if the distinct identity of any religious group, howsoever small, is denied and any group is forced to relate to Hinduism as a sect or sub-sect. The Sikhs and the Jains and the Buddhists will not accept Hindu hegemony on the ground that they are all branches of the same tree, which has sprung from the same soil. Dharmadhikari J.'s views clearly reflect the Hindutva philosophy. It is time that the Supreme Court frees itself of any lurking intellectual subservience to the Hindutva philosophy."
Jains have been declared a minority in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi, West Bengal, Uttaranchala and Jharkhand States . The total population of the Jain minority declared minority thus comes to 3,678, 551. The total Jain population in India is 4,225, 053. Thus the percentage of the Jain minority population comes to 88%. Yet being less than 50% to constitute a minority population in the whole of India is no longer taken into account.
The question is : Are all the benefits only meant for the national minorities so-called? I do not mean any disrespect to the national minorities so designated under the National Minorities Commission act. But I am constrained to take a strong exception to the blatantly discriminatory manner in which the Jains declared as a minority in various States such as Maharashtra, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, West Bengal, Uttaranchala, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Rajasthan comprising 88% of the total Jain population in India the Jain minority students in these States are specifically excluded from the benefit of the Pre and Post-Matriculation Scholarships announced under the Prime Minister’s 15-Point Plan in co-operation with similar State Government packages because Jains are not a National Minority!!. I am constrained to state that this smacks of being Jain Apartheid.
A meeting of the Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, on 19th December, 2008 approved a proposal to introduce the Constitution 103rd Amendment Bill to define minority. " This Bill is about the power to define a minority. The Supreme Court directed the Centre to decide the issue of giving minority status to Jains in Bal Patil vs. Union of India in 2005. A number of orders have been passed by the Supreme Court in this behalf," Home Minister, P.Chidambaram said.
It is inconceivable however that this amendment will be passed in the Indian Parliament because the main national minorities, Muslim, Christian and Sikh are not willing to arrive at a definition of minority status on the basis of State population because Sikhs are a majority in Punjab State as recently ruled by the Supreme Court of India and Christians are a majority in North-Eastern States Mizoram, Meghalaya and Muslims are a majority in Jammu & Kashmir. Besides the passage of this Bill will require two-thirds majority.
Thus Jains, Budddhists and Zoroastrians (Parsis) remain the national religious minorities in the real sense of the term’.
use RTI to get the desired info from the govt dept
I would suggest that the author can raise a RTI (Right to Information) application to ask these figures from the concerned ministry.
The reply would definitely embarass the govt and ministry and not to bluff the next time.
Somebody should take help of
Somebody should take help of Right for information or RTI activist..then they wud divulge the info!!
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