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Islam,
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Bihar
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Delhi Conf to see birth of first Indian board on Islamic Investment
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Govt
rules out OBC quota in Women's Bill:
Union Law Minister M Veerappa Moily
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notice issued to staff for not singing Gandhian prayer:
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 Muslim reservation in Andhra receives support from all parties:
All major political
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Cabinet
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The Andhra Pradesh Cabinet today approved the proposal to handover
the Nizam Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) University campus
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Terming Hindutva as the "spirit" of BJP, party President Nitin
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mortem report blasts the police theory on Batla House encounter:
Eminent Supreme Court lawyer and human rights activist Prashant
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Leader of opposition in Delhi Assembly
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Hyderabad/Patna:
The Supreme Court order restoring four percent quota for backward
class Muslims in government jobs and education in Andhra Pradesh has
come as a relief for students aspiring for professional courses and
has been welcomed by the community, which now wants more to states
implement it.
Students, who feared they would lose an academic year because the
Andhra Pradesh High Court last month quashed the quota, were elated
with the Supreme Court's interim order. The court Thursday observed
there was nothing wrong in providing a quota for Muslim backward
classes.
Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) president and Hyderabad MP
Asaduddin Owaisi, who is spearheading a campaign for the restoration
of Muslim quota in the state, termed the court verdict as
"remarkable". "This is our first victory and will save the academic
year of Muslim students," he said.
The court order will enable students from 14 backward Muslim groups
in Andhra Pradesh, where the community accounts for 9.2 percent of
the 77 million population, to avail of the reservation benefits for
the fourth consecutive year. Since a constitution bench of the apex
court will take up the hearing in August, admissions to most of the
professional courses would be completed by then.
"The court order will encourage us to do well and we can continue to
avail of the quota benefit," said Mohammed Saifullah, a Class 12
student who hopes to get admission to an MBBS course.
In the past three years, about 30,000 Muslim students were admitted
to various professional courses and higher education and nearly
3,000 candidates were recruited in government jobs.
The apex court judgment has also raised hopes among Muslim students
appearing for the Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC)
examinations, where reservations have not only benefited Muslims in
getting lower cadre government jobs under Group II but helped them
to occupy higher administrative positions too, like that of deputy
collectors.
The beneficiaries and community leaders give credit for this to late
chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, who provided reservation soon
after coming to power in 2004.
Fulfilling his election promise, YSR had provided five percent quota
to Muslims through a government order in 2004. But the high court
quashed it on petitions by some individuals.
However, on the court's advice, the government reconstituted the
backward classes commission and directed it to conduct a detailed
survey of the socio-economic conditions of Muslims.
On the commission's recommendations, the government issued an
ordinance in 2005 for five percent reservation, and the assembly
subsequently passed the legislation. However, it was quashed by the
high court on grounds that this would exceed the 50 percent quota
limit set by the Supreme Court.
The government then issued another order in 2007 providing four
percent quota in government jobs and educational institutions for
backward classes among Muslims.
A seven-judge bench of the high court Feb 8 quashed the Andhra
Pradesh Reservation for Socially and Educationally Backward Classes
of Muslims Act of 2007, this time saying reservations cannot be
extended on religious basis.
Muslim leaders in Bihar, where the community accounts for 16 percent
of the state's 83 million people, also welcomed the apex court order
and called on various state governments to similarly extend the
benefits of reservation to the community.
Terming it a "historical decision", the influential Patna-based
Imarat Shariah's chief Maulana Syed Nizamuddin told IANS this would
have a long-term effect on the development of Muslims in India.
The government should provide reservation for 15 years to backward
members of the Muslim community as well as other categories of
Muslims, said Nizamuddin, who is also the general secretary of the
All India Muslim Personal Law Board.
Dalit Muslim leader Irshadul Haque said that reservation for
Muslims, particularly backward members, will help empower them.
Maulana Anisur Rahman Qasmi, chairman of the Bihar Haj Committee,
said the Muslim community deserves reservation for their
empowerment.
Gulam Ghaus, a legislator of the opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal,
said that Muslims will have to fight for a similar reservation in
other states. "Muslims are as backward and poor as Dalits in the
country. Reservation is a tool to push them ahead," he said.
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