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ROBLEMSOFMUSLIMSININDIA
1. LACK OF SECURITY-
One of the major problems of Indian Muslims is lack of security. Riots, communalviolence have become a sad reality of India’s life and the majority of the victims of riots in India are Muslims. They face double edged torture of vicimisation at the handsof rioters and later by police. The bloody massacre of Muslims in Gujarat in lateFebruary 2002 that led to the death of over 2000 Muslims is a ghastly reminder of anorganized violence with tacit support by the ruling authorities. According to an officialestimate, 1044 people were killed in the violence - 790 Muslims and 254 Hindusincluding those killed in the Godhra train fire. Another 223 people were reportedmissing, 2,548 injured, 919 women widowed and 606 children orphaned. Unofficialestimates put the death toll closer to 2000, with Muslims forming a high proportion of those killed. When missing people were declared dead after 7 years, official figure of total deaths went up from 952 to 1,180.
2. LESSER REPRESENTATION IN GOVT. JOBS-
 Another major problem is lack of proportionate representation in public jobs e.g. lawenforcing agencies, administrative set ups and policy making. The political milieu justafter the partition was such that made Muslims feel so demoralized that they could notdare ask the question as to why the doors of govt. jobs were barred to them after theindependence. The Muslim civil servants similarly were not to be appointed onsensitive posts and extra caution had to be used for issuing even passports to them.The trend still continues but with slight variations. The strength of Muslims in the police and state paramilitary forces was deliberately reduced to the extent that in someStates including U.P., Delhi and West Bengal their representation is very low. In 1984only 2.14 Muslims were selected in IAS. As per Gopal Singh Commission (1983)report on Minorities, out of 12307 employees in UP Muslims account for only 929. In1964 Muslim IPS cadre officers were 6% only in UP and similar percentage enduredtill 1981. A report of ‘Communalism Combat’ (Bombay, September 1993 p. 6) says,that it was found Muslims are not at all working in two sensitive departments of Central Government namely IB and RAW.
3. LOW INCOME AND LACK OF MECHANISM OF FINANCIAL HELP-
 Another problem of Muslim community is its low income. Although the economic andsocial situation of Muslims is not the same throughout India, one cannot deny the factthat poverty and lack of genuine financial recourses are hampering socio- educationaldevelopment of the community at every step. In modern Industries and trades, exceptfor some isolated instances, Muslims had nor owned large scale industries or businessand are found lacking in high entrepreneurial traits. In a group of 2832 Industrialhouses each with the sales of 50 million and more the Muslims have only four units.The houses allotted to Muslims by Government to middle and lower income groupsthe percentage of Muslim allottee is barely 2.86%. The licenses of fair price shopissued to Muslims in UP is barely 6.9%. Muslims account for only 0.25% tangible benefits extended to artisans from Khadi and village industries commission. The loansadvanced by financial institutions only 3% Muslims shared the loans of Rs. 50,000/- toRs. 1, 0000/-. Less than 2% in the slab of Rs. I Lac to 2 Lacs and those between 2.00lacs to 1 million the figure slumps to less than 1%. In private sector industriesMuslim’s representation is less than 4%.Official data is, at least, enough to figure out that in the post independent IndiaMuslim community remained downwards economically in comparison to all other majority or minority communities. And with authentic findings in hand as we havenow through National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO) and the Sachar Committee Report (SCR) about the profile of second religious majority group of India,official policy can - if any government wants to - easily identify the groups most in
 
need of state intervention, support and special care. It is typical of India’s political andsocial ethos that this fact of gross under representation of a significant religiousminority is not allowed to become an issue. Any such discussion would be rather viewed as ‘communal’ and anti-secular.
4. LESSOR NUMBER OF VOTERS IN PROPORTION TO POPULATION – DEPRIVATION OF RIGHT TO VOTE
To prove the above point I am presently taking example of UP only, the data of other States may be able to be utilised for an all India results. As per the census of India2001 total population of UP is 166, 97,921. Out of this Hindus constitute 135,457,763(81.5%) and Muslims constitute 307, 401, 58 (18.5%). The male amongst the Muslim population constitute 160, 285, 62 and women constitute 147, 115, 96. After deductingthe number of children of less than 6 years of age i.e. 6415653, the total population of Muslims in UP in 2001 was 243, 245, 05. In this population 47.78% are declared asliterates and 52.21% as illiterates. The rural population of Muslims in UP is 196,66297 and urban population is 11073861. As per the voter list prepared for the UPassembly election of 2007 total voters are 113439873 (eleven crore thirty four lacsthirty nine thousand eight hundred seventy three) which means that out of total population of UP of the census of 2001 census 68. 25% population had been includedin the voters list. Out of these voters if one deducts the number of Muslim voters of 157, 606, 93 (13.89%) then the total number of non Muslim voter are 976, 791, 80 i.e.86.11% of total voters. The following two tables will effectively demonstrate the phenomenon of fraud committed in the voters list.Table ATotal voters in UP in 2007Muslim VotersNon Muslim Voters113439873157, 606, 93 (13.89%)976, 791, 80 (86.11%)Table BTotal Voters in UPin 2007In 2007 as per the population growth proportion of census of 2001 howmany non Muslimvoters are likelyBut the growthfound isConclusion i.e.increase in votersof non Muslimcategory in 200711343987392453494 (81.5%)976, 791, 80(86.11%)522, 5686As per the previous census and of the year 2001 the population increase of NonMuslims and Muslims registered increase in proportionate manner. But the bafflingfact is that similar proportionate increase was not registered in the voter list of 2007.As per 1971survey Hindus constituted 82.7% and Muslims 11.2% of the population.The corresponding figures for 1991 census are Hindus 82.6% and Muslims 11.4%.(Malayalam Manorama, 1992). The marginal difference in the growth patternhas more to do with socio-economic factors rather than the religious ones.Over all, this statistics shows a reasonably 'stable' (religion wise) population. On thecontrary if the prevailing growth rates are analyzed, it will be clear that between 1961-71 and 1971-81, Hindu population increase went up from 23.71 to 24.42, while between the same periods Muslim population increase went down from 30.85 to30.20.
5. THE LACK OF SYMPATHY TOWARDS RELIGIOUS PRACTICES OFMUSLIMS
 There are Muslims’ cultural and identity crises, including those fear-psycho casesamong Muslims themselves and the factual ones like the recent Aftab Ansari case of an Indian Air Force (IAF) officer who wanted to grow religiously prescribed beard but2
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