Rohingya Muslim man Ahammed Khabhir and his wife sit outside their tent in the old city of Hyderabad. (NOAH SEELAM/AFP/Getty Images)
Rohingya Muslim man Ahammed Khabhir and his wife sit outside their tent in the old city of Hyderabad. (NOAH SEELAM/AFP/Getty Images) 
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Telangana Panel Recommends 9-12 Per Cent Quota For Muslims

BySwarajya Staff

The commission of inquiry on socio-economic and educational conditions of Muslims in Telangana has recommended to the state government to provide 12 per cent or minimum 9 per cent reservation to the community in jobs and education. The government had last year constituted the four-member panel headed by former IAS officer G Sudhir.

According to the report, submitted in August but now made public, the data gathered by the commission shows that among the criteria (for backwardness) the Indra Sawhney case looks at, Muslims are below the state average in some of them and are socially and educationally backward and severely deprived. The report said:

Therefore, Government may provide reservation to them. Given that more than 82 per cent of the Muslim population is already categorised as backward, there may be an increase in the reservation percentage to 12 percent or a minimum of 9 per cent based on their social and educational backwardness and deprivation.

The panel observed that a suitable legislation needs to be passed duly obtaining legal opinion as the present provision of 4 per cent reservation is continuing with interim order of the Supreme Court.

With inputs from IANS