Negligible representation of Muslims in UP Police, reveals RTI

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Negligible representation of Muslims in UP Police, reveals RTI
Press Trust of India | Mon Feb 10, 2014 | 23:06 IST

#Lucknow #Uttar Pradesh Recent data released by the Uttar Pradesh
government about representation of Muslims in Police force flies in
the face of the claims made by government and political parties about
uplift of the community.

According to the recent data, only two per cent Sub-Inspectors (SI),
three per cent Head Constables and four per cent Constables in UP
Police are Muslims.

The facts were released by the state government in response to an RTI
query moved by social activist Urvashi Sharma.

Till June 3, 2013 UP civil police employs 236 Muslim Sub-Inspectors
out of total 10,197 ( 2.31 per cent); 269 Muslim Head-Constables out
of total 8,224 ( 3.27 per cent) and 4,430 Muslim Constables out of
total 1,01,245 total (4.37 per cent), the reply said.
Negligible representation of Muslims in UP Police, reveals RTI

Sharma in her query last year had asked for total number of police
officials and employees of which how many are Muslims.

She said that though earlier it was Congress, over the past decades
mainly two parties SP and BSP have been in power.

In 2005, the Centre had appointed Rajinder Sachar Committee to prepare
a report on the social, economic and educational condition of Muslims.

The Committee placed the socio-economic and educational status of
Muslims below that of the Scheduled Castes.

"In elections, SP banks on Muslim-Yadav equation and BSP boasts of
Social Engineering. All parties try their best to depict themselves as
the real well-wishers of Muslims," she said adding that these figures
raise a question mark on their seriousness towards the issue of
Muslims; uplift.

Muslims are about 17 per cent of the total 20 crore population of UP.

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