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West Bengal muezzins to get monthly
honorarium through Waqf Board
Wednesday May 02, 2012 08:58:56 PM,
Agencies
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Kolkata:
In yet another step to show how Waqf Board funds can be properly
utllized, West Bengal Chief
Minister Mamata Banerjee Wednesday announced Rs.1,000 monthly
honorarium for muezzins of mosques from the board income.
She also included 33 more classes from among the minorities in the
17 percent quota earmarked for Other Backward Classes.
"The muezzins who lead the call to prayers and help out in other
socio-economic activities like administering polio drops are very
poor," she told reporters. "So the cabinet has given the go-ahead
for a Rs.1,000 honorarium per month through the Waqf Board."
She said the cabinet also cleared a proposal for reservation of
jobs for Muslims under the Other Backward Classes category.
"The previous (Left Front) government passed a bill hurriedly
before last year's assembly polls without undertaking any
survey... We have now finalised things after conducting a sample
survey," she said.
Banerjee said earlier 65 classes of minorities were included in
the OBC list. "Today we have decided to add 33 more."
Last month, the chief minister announced a monthly honorarium of
Rs.2,500 to Imams to be paid through the Waqf Board.
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