NEW DELHI – Despite being approximately 18 per cent of India’s population, Muslims continue to face significant neglect and marginalisation across various sectors. They have deliberately and systematically been pushed to the last line in education. In employment, Muslims are underrepresented in government jobs, public sector enterprises, and the private sector. Socioeconomic indicators like poverty rates, healthcare access, and housing conditions also reflect their disadvantaged position. Politically, their representation is limited, and they’re often excluded from decision-making processes. This neglect perpetuates cycles of poverty and exclusion, hindering India’s development and social cohesion.
Even after remedial steps and policy changes have been suggested since the 1980s, Muslims continue to encounter eroded freedoms and institutional biases. Since the first decade of the 21st century, their neglect has become rampant. They have remained underrepresented in the government, administration, public utilities, public sector undertakings, scientific bodies, regulatory organisations, security forces, and every other domain. Even after over seven and a half decades of independence, Muslims have not become heads of several coveted organisations.
\After his book, Muslims in India – Ground Reality Versus Fake Narratives, became a big hit, Mohammed Abdul Mannan has written a new book At the Bottom of the Ladder – State of the Indian Muslims –https://www.amazon.in/dp/B0GF1Q9R25.
Clarion India is publishing exclusive reports based on the mentioned book which sheds light on the community’s representation in 150 Union ministries, departments, and key organisations. The book may prove a reality check for community leaders and policy-makers.
We start with an unequal representation of Muslims in different political parties across several states and at the national level. Gradually, Clarion India will present the overall picture in parliament, legislative assemblies, the judiciary, diplomatic fraternity, law enforcement, ministries entertainment industry, sports and all other relevant fields.
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At the Bottom of the Ladder: State of the Indian Muslims – https://www.amazon.in/dp/B0GF1Q9R25
Tomorrow: Only 19 Muslims among 263 chiefs of different political parties
