State of Muslims, Dalits dismal: Report
BS Reporter / New Delhi March 29, 2010, 0:36 IST
On the heels of the Sachar Committee report on the socio-economic
status of Muslims, the National Council for Applied Economic Research
(NCAER) has come out with data about the economic status of Muslims
that makes dismal reading.
Nearly one third of Muslims in the nation survive on less than Rs 550
a month, NCAER says and adds that three out of every 10 Muslims were
below poverty line and lived on less than Rs 550 a month in the year
2004-05.
Even among the poor, urban Muslims were better off compared to those
in villages, who survived on Rs 338 a month during the year under
review, NCAER said in a report last week.
"The Adivasis are the most vulnerable group with nearly 50 per cent
below the poverty line...(followed by) the Dalits and Muslims with
poverty rates of 32 per cent and 31 per cent," said the Indian Human
Development survey conducted by the NCAER and University of Maryland
of the US.
The survey took the poverty line at Rs 356 per person per month in
rural areas and at Rs 538 in urban areas for 2004-05.Besides, the
survey said Muslims are at the bottom in terms of rural household
income.
However, in the country, Muslim households are slightly better off
than Dalits and Adivasis as a whole.
"Adivasi and Dalit households have the lowest annual income at Rs
20,000 and Rs 22,800, respectively. The other backward classes and
Muslim households are slightly better off, with incomes of Rs 26,091
and Rs 28,500," the report said.
As per the 2001 census, there were 13.8 crore Muslims, accounting for
13.4 per cent of the total population of India.
The survey said Muslims are most likely to generate income from small
family businesses, partly because of educational differences across
the community. It said social group differences in enrolment were
striking.
Dalit, Adivasi and Muslim children were far less likely to enroll in
schools and were slightly more likely to drop out than others, the
survey said.
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