Tweet
While Chief Minister Mayawati’s demand of reservation for Muslims has raised a political storm; a study carried out by the State-run Giri Institute of Development Studies has revealed that plight of Muslim households in rural Uttar Pradesh was bad as compared to Hindus in all socio-economic indicators.
“This difference would be sharper if we exclude Scheduled Caste households from the Hindu section. Muslims in rural UP are lagging behind in all spheres of life — be it in agriculture, education and even in Government jobs," Director Giri Institute of Development Studies Dr AK Singh told The Pioneer recently.
He said that benefits of government schemes have failed to reach the Muslim households. The difference is more striking because in a particular village Hindus stand benefited by government schemes while Muslims are deprived of the same, Dr Singh said.
These facts were revealed in a study, 'Relative socio-economic conditions of Muslims in rural UP', carried out by Dr Singh in collaboration with Mohd Tauheed Alam. The study, sponsored by the Union Ministry of Minority Welfare, was carried out in 21 districts of Uttar Pradesh which have the maximum minority concentration of Mulims and are relatively backward. With a view to devise a suitable policy during 11th Plan the GIDS was asked to carry out a baseline survey in 19 districts.
The study covered 30 villages from each of the identified districts.
Once a village was identified house listing was conducted by door-to-door visits. In all 17,076 households were surveyed of which 11,493 were Hindus and 5,191 Muslims. "Differences in economic indicators between Hindus and Muslims were very sharp. The proportion of landless households are much higher in the Muslim community and where they do have land it is very small. The value of assets owned by Hindus was much higher than that owned by Muslims," the study said.
“This difference would be sharper if we exclude Scheduled Caste households from the Hindu section. Muslims in rural UP are lagging behind in all spheres of life — be it in agriculture, education and even in Government jobs," Director Giri Institute of Development Studies Dr AK Singh told The Pioneer recently.
He said that benefits of government schemes have failed to reach the Muslim households. The difference is more striking because in a particular village Hindus stand benefited by government schemes while Muslims are deprived of the same, Dr Singh said.
These facts were revealed in a study, 'Relative socio-economic conditions of Muslims in rural UP', carried out by Dr Singh in collaboration with Mohd Tauheed Alam. The study, sponsored by the Union Ministry of Minority Welfare, was carried out in 21 districts of Uttar Pradesh which have the maximum minority concentration of Mulims and are relatively backward. With a view to devise a suitable policy during 11th Plan the GIDS was asked to carry out a baseline survey in 19 districts.
The study covered 30 villages from each of the identified districts.
Once a village was identified house listing was conducted by door-to-door visits. In all 17,076 households were surveyed of which 11,493 were Hindus and 5,191 Muslims. "Differences in economic indicators between Hindus and Muslims were very sharp. The proportion of landless households are much higher in the Muslim community and where they do have land it is very small. The value of assets owned by Hindus was much higher than that owned by Muslims," the study said.
