Saturday, March 8, 2014

Real fact of HRD ministry Govt of India implimentation schemes about minorities and my suggetions


Implementation fact of   HRD Ministry schemes related to Minorities

Ministry of HRD Govt of India called the annual general meeting of National Monitoring Committee for Minorities Education which was held on 06-01-2014 at Manekshaw Center Ashoka Road, Delhi Cantt, Dhaula Kuan New Delhi.

I would like to express my views after going through agenda of meeting and HRD ministry action taken report on minority’s education I found that on many suggestions HRD Ministry has not taken any action and many core issues was skipped from the agenda. No doubt Government of India introducing many schemes for the development of minorities in education, but the ground reality is totally different. Therefore I rose following issues along with my suggestions in meeting for the consideration.

Problems faced by the minority group in the several states of India
I have personally come across a few problems faced by minority group in several states of our country, for the same I put my suggestions for consideration:
1.     Scholarship/Fund issues:
·        The allocations of funds in recent budget for educational development of minorities are insufficient to cater to the needs of the minority society.
·        Chairperson of Jharkhand state minority commission said some education institutions are not giving scholarships to their students and another common complaint is that the banks are not sanctioning loans to the minority communities. These problems / grievances need to be looked into.
·        Pre-matric scholarship fund should be increased.
·        Proportion of Muslims being selected in the Jawahar Navoday a Selection test is EXTREMELY LOW! Fee of Rs. 200 per month is exempted for SC / ST / physically handicapped in class IX to XII. As per Sachar report Muslims deserve exemption too!
·        There is a special Scholarship Scheme for Kashmiri students under Prime Ministers Special Programme. Its implementation is not proper and effective and the benefits are not reaching to the Target Group of Poor and Needy Students.
·        Ministry of HRD should support Minority affair ministry to give the same benefit of scholarship to the minority student as it is given to SC/ST student.
2.     Minority participation in Government body:
·        Low participation of minorities in policy making body. I would suggest educationists / intellectuals and social activists are included in Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) and other such bodies under HRD Ministry, this will benefit the community in the long run to put their problems forward.
3.     Madrasa issues:
·        Amazing enough to note that on one hand Government of India seems very keen on granting aids to Muslim run educational institutions, especially Madrasas and Maktabs, in the name of quality and modern education. While on the other hand, very recently Allahabad High Court struck down the minority status given to the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) by the HRD ministry and declared the decision of 50% reservation of seats to Muslims in AMU's post-graduate medical courses as illegal. So I request to kindly retain the minority status of this University.
·        After the announcement HRD ministry is keen to open AMU center or campus in different parts of country for minority, I am greatly surprised how minorities can be benefitted when the AMU is not having its minority status? I would suggest either open campus of minority Status University or open new minority Status University.
·        Nowadays many students from madrasa are studying in JNU, Jamia Millia Islamia, Hamdard, Aligarh and other universities and these Universities are accepting Madrasa degree then why can’t other universities accept madrasa degrees too? I request you as the patrons of the above mentioned universities which accept madrasa degree, to support and propose that the HRD Ministry should instruct all the Universities to accept Madarsa degree and give them admission for further studies.
·        I would suggest that the patrons of UP madrasa board HRD ministry should form central madarsa board at national level as optional choice not make it mandatory.

·        The annual budget of IDMI (Infrastructural  Development of Minority Institutions) coming under HRD Ministry should be increased to Rs.500crors and grant of Rs. 50 lacs should also increased to 50 lacs to one cror and it should be also sanctioned and disbursed directly by the union HRD Ministry instead of giving fund to state government.

4.     Problems faced by the Minority Community while opening Minority Institutions  are:
·        While opening a Minority institution in any state of India the Management faces endless harassment. The authority asks the applicant to prove their minority character. The Ministry of Minority affairs of the Government of India in all Scholarship advertisements project Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, Sikhs and Parsis as minorities. On this basis the State Govt. should accept any institution opened by the organizations belonging to these religions as Minority institutions.
·        During the process of opening professional colleges, in this sector also the Minorities face a lot of problems. First, in getting an NOC or ESSENTIALITY CERTIFICATE from the State Govt. Secondly the State Govt. insist on Management surrendering 50% of the seats to the State Govt., if they do not agree to this demand then they face a lot of difficulties created by the Govt. Hence in this case also it is better that the requirement of the NOC from State Govt. is removed particularly when the State Govt. does not play any role such  as providing financial aid.
·        Several State Governments issue Minority institution certificates only for a year requiring annual renewal. This is a cumbersome procedure, in this regard instead of the State Certificate the NCMEI Certificate should be taken into consideration.
·        The Sachar Committee reports that the quality of Urdu Medium schools is very poor. The reasons behind this have to be worked upon; once a problem is identified a solution must follow. Government must give PRIORITY FOCUS towards QUANTITATIVE and QUALITATIVE improvement of Urdu medium schools. They should get more hassle free access to facilities so that they can also thrive and build a strong student community.
·        No Minority institution ever gets special support like Milind College at Aurangabad which was started by Dr.Babasaheb Ambedkar was given Rs. 2 Crores by Cabinet ministry of Maharashtra in the year 2008.These minority institutions cannot survive on donations or charity alone, they should also be considered for  such Government grants
·        Government land is not usually allotted for school building purpose to minorities therefore there is no availability of land for school infrastructure. I therefore suggest in minority concentrated district Govt. should either give land on lease basis for the term of 99 years or any other alternate solution should be offered.
·        Not a single Minority found institution has yet acquired the Deemed University status why? Again they need to secure a certificate from the designated authorities and here the matter gets stuck as they have to face several hurdles.
·        In Gujarat, the State Education Department issued a circular to the government aided schools to subscribe to a Gujarati magazine, Sadhana, which is wedded to the ideology of the RSS and Sangh Parivar. This is a direct violation of Article 26 of the Indian Constitution.
·        In Maharashtra not a single school is opened under Model school scheme/SSA/KGBVs) in any Minority concentrated districts.
·        SCHEME - Model School under PPP Mode instead of scheme for English and Hindi Urdu should be taken wherever a demand for an Urdu school is put up.
·        Due to population one school in block under Model School scheme is not sufficient.
·        Opening new schools in a city like Mumbai with current infrastructure pattern is difficult because it is not possible to find an open plot in this city. Day by day population is increasing but the number of schools remains the same. Supply is much lesser than demand, so it is not possible to open new schools in a particular shape or size. Also due to some height or CRZ limit barriers schools are not able to load more class rooms on their building. I therefore suggest special infrastructure plans should be introduced for a city like Mumbai. While designing spaces for schools the criteria of playground should be removed and the size of class and number of students should be given priority. Modern design and architecture will offer multiple solutions and give a better infrastructure as well as accommodate more students in a school.
5.     Admission of Minority child in school:
·        In many places I have personally observed that some institute is not granting admission to the children belonging to minorities. This problem is specially faced by Muslim students. I therefore suggest, under RTE Quota, a Quota for Muslim students should be reserved.

This is for your kind information and for necessary action. I Hope HRD ministry will note down the mentioned issues and  take prompt and positive action on the above issues and obliged me.

With Highest Regards


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