Anek Ramayan a documentary film by Shikha Sen

Anek Ramayan a documentary film by Shikha Sen

Anek Ramayan will be telecast on NDTV 24/7 this Saturday, 10th Dec, at 3 pm and on Sunday, 11th December at 11pm and on NDTV Profit, next weekend, on Saturday,17th Dec, at 10 pm and on Sunday, 18th Dec at 5 pm.
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A brief write-up about the film :

Anek Ramayan is a film based on a play scripted and performed by parents at a school in Delhi, in which different episodes of the epic are depicted from different texts, with many authors coming in as characters to talk about how they see the story. 'Anek Ramayan' was initially intended as a Ramlila production, but when they began working on the script, the parents had to confront questions of how to integrate their own versions of the Ramayana and accommodate others'. The film looks at the evolving processes of conflict and consensus as agreement was achieved about the final presentation. It also features songs and recitations as well as contesting e-mail exchanges between parents.

The original film is about 70 mins long, but the NDTV 24/7 version will be 40 mins and the NDTV Profit version will be 50 mins.

Here's a report on the film from MailToday:

Only reconstruction of Babri Masjid can heal the wounds of Muslims: CIM

By TCN News,
London: On 19th anniversary of Babri Masjid demolition, Chairman of Council of Indian Muslims-UK (CIM), Mr. Munaf Zeena termed the demolition of Babri Masjid on 6 December 1992 by BJP led Hindu zealots as an unforgettable incident for Muslims.
“Destruction of Babri Mosque has left deep wounds in Muslims’ psyche while ongoing cases of harassment and extrajudicial killings of Muslim youths by law enforcement agencies have kept the wound ever fresh. The only thing that will heal that wound is the reconstruction of a mosque on its original site” said Mr. Zeena.
He blamed the political parties for using the Babri issue for their political gains even when they knew that it is quite a legal issue. He said: “19 years on, Indian Muslims have moved on but have forgotten nothing and the scars remain ever fresh. No one in the community has forgotten that it was a local legal issue and that the central and state governments shamelessly used government machinery to turn it into a religious and national problem. The Muslim leaders of 1960s and 70s were aware of this aspect and that was the reason why they never made it a main Muslim political demand. However, it was the Indian state which transformed this legal question into a political issue, simply to acquire a political legitimacy”.
He further said that the hatred and discrimination that were displayed on 6 December 1992 continue unabated with Muslim youths being harassed, tortured and detained under false charges of terrorism and their careers being destroyed.
“With the first ever case in Indian history since 1947; with the murderers of Muslims during Gujarat massacre 2002 being punished and Muslim youths in Hyderabad and Malegaon, albeit mercilessly tortured and wrongfully detained for years, being released, one sees some light at the end of the tunnel as it reflects some change. However, full justice is still a distant dream” Zeena added.

Police violated Supreme Court guidelines while arresting terror accused

By Md. Ali, TwoCircles
New Delhi: Relatives of Gauhar Aziz Khomany, who was arrested by the special cell of Delhi Police on 23rd November on charges of being an Indian Mujahideen operative, have alleged that while arresting Khomany, the police violated the Supreme Court guidelines on making arrests.
The SC Guidelines on arrest say that within 8-12 hours of making any arrests the police must inform the family of the person concerned about his arrest and the location where s/he has been kept by the police. Importantly till date, no official information about the arrest has been made to Khomany’s family members.

Khomany’s brother Hasan Aziz Amir has approached the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and the National Commission for Minorities (NCM), seeking their intervention in “this case of human rights violation.”
While talking to TwoCircles.net, Hasan Aziz Amir said, “Police has violated the Supreme Court directive as enunciated in the D.K.Basu Guidelines by failing to inform the family about his arrest. Till date, no official information about the arrest has been made to any of the family members and whatever we information we are getting about my brother, is through the media.”
Akhlaq Ahmad of the Association for Protection of Civil Rights (APCR) said that the manner in which Khomany was arrested, showed that the police not only violated the SC Guidelines on making arrests it also violated the UN’s International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, of which India is a signatory. Ahmad also criticized Delhi Police saying that “now human rights violation by the police, while picking up Muslim youths in terror cases has become a normal trend.”
“Gauhar is an IM operative, who in 2003 while he was in his village, came in contact with Imran another alleged IM operative. In 2007, Gauhar came to Delhi and in November 2008, he renewed his contacts with Imran and joined Indian Mujahideen He provided Imran with logistic and financial support,” claims the Delhi police.
Gauhar was arrested on the inputs provided by Qateel Siddiqui, who was also been arrested by the Special cell, Delhi police on the charges of being an IM operative. Amir informed TCN that Qateel used to work in Gauhar’s construction business as labor supervisor but he had quit his job about an year ago.
Amir broke down while arguing for his brother’s innocence. He categorically denied his brother having any links with any terror group. “My brother was a law abiding citizen who was doing his construction business. He is being falsely implicated in to the terror case,” added Amir, who was the vice president of the Aligarh Muslim University Students Union (AMUSU) and also an elected court member of the AMU.
“Had Gauhar been actually involved in terror activities, he would have gone underground and evaded arrest like Qateel did, when he got to know about police look out for him,” added Amir.
Amir said that Gauhar’s family and friends, were shocked to know about his arrest because “Gauhar is known for commitment towards social work. He said that quite recently Gauhar spearheaded an anti-tobacco and anti-dowry campaign in his native place in Darbhanga in Bihar.”
Gauhar himself is a mechanical engineer and comes from a well educated family. After working with a multi national firm in Dubai, Gauhar came to India because of family commitments and established Irene Engineering Contracting Company. One of Gauhar’s brothers, is a senior scientist in Chicago and another a civil engineer in Saudi Arabia. Gauhar is also a relative of Dr. Kaleem Ahmad Ajiz, a world renowned Urdu poet who was awarded with a Padam Shree by the government of India.

Sons of Babur - hit out at communalism and a communal mentality by retelling a simple truth

New Delhi: The performance of the Hindustani version of the play ‘Sons of Babur’ [Babur ki Aulad] written by Mr Salman Khurshid, Minister or Law & Justice and Minority Affairs, was performed at Rashtrapati Bhawan on 28 October 2011. The play was successful in giving a new meaning to the term ‘Nationalism’, especially taking in to consideration the context of Muslims of India. Incidentally, I have had the privilege of translating the wonderful English text of the play into Urdu and Hindi.
The play, while unfolding Mughal history, harks back to the fact that several Mughal princes had Rajput mothers—including Bahadur Shah Zafar. They were never forced to embrace Islam. Every Mughal emperor, from Humayun to Aurangzeb had at least one Hindu wife. Babur’s sister was married to a Hindu as well.
The history of the dynasty after Aurangzeb and stretching up to Bahadur Shah Zafar is a story of decline, but even the less-known Mughal kings adhered to the tradition of marrying Hindu girls, with Bahadur Shah Zafar being the son of a Hindu mother. The play refers to these facts in order to counter the fringe element’s logic that the Mughals were aliens, referring to them pejoratively as ‘Babur ki Aulad’.

What the play spelt out unequivocally was that the Mughals as well as present-day Muslims in the country—are as much Indians as practitioners of any other faith. A majority of Indian Muslims are converts to Islam, so they share the local culture with Hindus—of course, with variations—but the ethos is the same.
The play, thus, served as a powerful vehicle to hit out at communalism and a communal mentality by retelling a simple truth: The Mughals who ruled over India were totally secular and Indian in their outlook, to whom the concept of an ‘Islamic state’, being touted by several ‘pan-Islamists’ of our times, would have been totally anathema.
Even the conservative Aurangzeb had a number of Hindu soldiers and commanders in his army. He had a Hindu wife (Udaipur Mahal) in his household. He even provided financial help to several Mandirs. Moreover, none of the Mughal emperors ever felt the need to perform Hajj, Aurangzeb being no exception.
With a theme and message so telling and forthright, it is no wonder that the play has been performed more than 30 times to packed auditoria all over the country [NCPA, Mumbai; Kala Kendra, Goa; Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad and several venues in Delhi].
As for the performance at Rashtrapati Bhawan, the President, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil, sat enraptured throughout the one hour forty minutes running time. The performance was attended by all state and union territory Governors, several of Mr Khurshid’s cabinet colleagues as well as many distinguished personalities. After the play, the Director of the play, Dr M Sayeed Alam, was especially felicitated by Smt Patil for his direction, with the President describing the play as engrossing.

President, Pratibha Devisingh Patil, being introduced to the cast of ‘Sons of Babur.’ On her left ,playwright and Union Law & Justice, Mr Salman Khurshid, while on the right are Mr Tom Alter and Dr Ather Farouqui

To Tom Alter, who played the lead role of Bahadur Shah Zafar in the play, she said that his performance was mesmerizing and legendary. When Tom Alter was introduced to the President, there was a standing ovation.
The Honourable President was in all praise for Mr Khurshid—who also received a standing ovation—not only for his literary effort but for reinterpreting the Indianness of Indian Muslims and the Mughals; thus spreading the message of plurality and tolerance.
To be honest, the translator does not have much of a role in putting forth such a carefully crafted and ideological play like ‘Babur Ki Aulad’, but the Honourable President was nevertheless very generous in her praise for the translation when I was introduced to her. She remarked that my translation was painstaking, and that complex historical factors spoke plainly, conveying the worldview of the playwright as well as a sense of history, with a total command over the language being on display. In reply, I could only mumble, “I am honoured”.
Let us hope that through more performances the play will convey its message to a wider audience and serve a social cause: the fight against communalism.

Sohrabuddin case: Supreme Court asks for call details

 

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday directed the Gujarat government to make available to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) details of phone calls made between senior police officers and other functionaries of the state during the 2005 killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh.

The direction came from the apex court bench of Justice Aftab Alam and Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai after counsel Gopal Subramanium, who is assisting the court in the case, told the court that the investigating agency was not provided with the call records of the period when Sohrabuddin Sheikh was abducted and killed in a staged shootout.

The court was hearing a petition seeking the recall of its Jan 12, 2010 verdict transferring investigation into the case to the CBI.

The court has asked the CBI to carry out thorough investigations into the matter.

Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife Kausarbi were taken off from a bus on the outskirts of Ahmedabad Nov 23, 2005. In the wee hours of Nov 26, 2005, Sheikh was killed in a staged shootout. Kausarbi went missing subsequently.

The bench asked Additional Advocate General of Gujarat Tushar Mehta to apprise the court of the exact position of the case on next hearing Wednesday. Mehta told the court that if call record CDs were available with the state police, then they will be given to CBI.

Subramanium told the court that the state police is maintaining that the call records available with it relate to the period when Sohrabuddin's aide Tulsiram Prajapati was killed.

He said that while call records would not disclose the conversations that took place, they would reveal who was in touch with whom during the period.

Disputing the position of two telecom operators who said they did not have the records of the calls made in 2005, Gopal Subramanium said that he had some knowledge of technology used by the service providers and call records can be retrieved.

It has been contended that it were the call details of the then deputy superintendent of police Narendra Amin which revealed that when Kausarbi was cremated at DIG D.G. Vanzara's village Illol, he was in touch with the former minister of state for home Amit Shah.

Senior counsel Vivek Tanka, appearing for the CBI, told the court: "They (police) did not give us anything by way of telephone call records of important people."

"(Inspector General of Police Geetha Johri) says that she had handed over all the records to the Additional Director General O.P. Mathur, but call record CDs were not given to us along with the Sohrabuddin Sheikh case records," he told the court.

Counsel for Robabuddin Sheikh, Sohrabuddin's brother, told the court that while call records of people like Amit Shah, Vanzara and Amin were not being provided, call details of other police officers during the period were made available.

Muslims, a Misunderstood Community in India

From TwoCircles

By Aziz A. Mubaraki,
The Indian media published many colorful stories reporting that Madrasas are breeding grounds for Islamic terrorism and that many of them are funded by Pakistan's ISI. But the media never bothered to investigate the charges seriously. In fact we have never heard such charge against any Islamic institution having ever been proved to be true in any court of law.
India’s Muslim population, which is estimated to be as large as 150 million (the second largest in the world after Indonesia), is largely poor, illiterate, and has been victims of communal discrimination in almost all walks of life. Government-appointed inquiry commissions highlighted these miseries of Indian Muslims at least twice in recent years. Yet, India’s Muslims have remained committed to the Indian state and seek to participate in country’s mainstream political and economic life.

Living in ghettoes and backward villages Muslims often have no access to quality government, private or missionary schools. The poorer Muslim parents are left with no choice but to send their small children to madrasas where education is almost free. They send their children to madrasas to help them get at least religious education when they do not have easy access to mainstream general education.
Muslims face discrimination in education, job, housing and other fields. This discrimination has given rise to sense of alienation among many Muslims. If this discrimination is removed from the country, Muslims can positively contribute to India’s growth in all terms. But minority Muslims cannot join the mainstream unless they get help from the majority Hindu community. This open-hearted welcome gesture of mutual trust and respect must come from the Hindus first. I am sure that the gesture will surely be spontaneously reciprocated by the Muslims.
This has to be understood that there are a number of Islamic religious and political organisations across the country. But these organisations are not that popular among Muslims who traditionally prefer to support secular groups. For this reason no Islamist group has in fact been able to be involved in terrorist activities with popular Muslim support.
In fact, India's secular education system is yet to do something substantial on its part to help integrate Muslims into the mainstream society. If Muslims are offered opportunity, like other Indians, they would surely prefer modern academic education over what poorer madrasas are offering. Like all others, India’s Muslims too want to improve their standard of living and they know that modern or English education can help them reach that goal comfortably.
However, although at a low pace, traditional hurdles to Muslims’ cultural integration to the mainstream society are falling apart. For all Indians many young and dynamic Muslims have turned culture icons in recent years- be it in sports, movies and other fields. As Muslims have always maintained that they are Indians first and Muslims second, they are making serious efforts to integrate themselves into the mainstream society and win the adulation and respect of other Indians. Unless the authorities guarantee unbiased opportunities for these Muslims, they will never be able to improve their lots and participate in nation’s development.
Separatism and religious extremism hold no appeal to Indian Muslims, and the overwhelming majority of them espouse moderate doctrines. But, it’s unfortunate that mainstream Indian Media have always incorrectly portrayed minority Muslims as one obscurantist community, resorting to violence and terrorism. Bent only on how they can push up their TRP, the media never bothered to unveil the TRUTH, sadly...
(Aziz A. Mubaraki is Member, Advisory Committee, Airport Authority of India (NSC), Ministry of Civil Aviations, Government of India)

A new govt. report reveals more startling facts about Muslims in West Bengal

From Twocircles
Kolkata: This November, the Sachar Committee Report completed five years of ‘shelf life’. While some debate and more politics on its findings about socio-economic and educational condition of Muslims in the country have been on all these years, a new report has come out with more startling facts about the minority community in West Bengal.
The Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC), an autonomous body equally funded by both central and West Bengal government, recently published report of its baseline household survey on the state of Muslims in 12 Minority Concentration Districts (MCDs) of West Bengal. The CSSSC had conducted the household survey in 2008, two years after the Sachar Report made public, with an aim to build on and supplement, wherever necessary, the findings of the Sachar Report to ensure overall growth and development of the MCDs.

People geting weekly food relief from Charity Alliance in Ghoshpara, Murshidabad


The findings of the CSSSC survey could be categorized under the broad headings of: Basic Amenities; Education; Health; Infrastructure; Occupational conditions; Existence and Efficacy of Government Schemes. But before we go into the detail of the findings about each MCD of West Bengal, let’s have a quick look at the summary of the findings.
Summary of CSSSC findings about West Bengal Muslims
1. Most of the Muslims are far behind in literacy, education
2. Dropout rate higher among Muslims than Non-Muslims
3. Electricity, drainage, sanitation facilities less in Muslim areas than non-Muslim areas
4. Muslims are holding most of kuccha houses.
5. Indira Awas Yojana (IAY) provided home to Muslims in negligible number
6. Vocational training of Tailoring is higher among Muslims
7. Muslims need more Technical School.
8. Muslim females engaged in house more than the Non-Muslims
9. Engagement in professional work: Muslims far behind than Non-Muslim
10. Most of the public hospitals are not located in close proximities
11. Child birth at home higher among Muslims
12. Muslims not aware of government projects in village like SGSY, IAY, NREGS, Swajaldhara etc.
Survey in the MCDs
The MCDs in West Bengal are: Uttar Dinajpur, Dakshin Dinajpur, Malda, Murshidabad, Birbhum, Nadia, South 24 Parganas, North 24 Parganas, Bardhaman, Cooch Behar, Haora and Kolkata.
Household survey had not been conducted by the government in West Bengal since long. Throughout the 34 years rule of the Left Front, Muslims demanded such survey, but the state government always rejected. But after the Sachar Report uncovered the truth, the Central Government initiated to conduct the household survey in MCDs of West Bengal. CSSSC was asked to conduct the survey.
The CSSSC team was headed by renowned economist Prof Sugata Marjit while other members were Prof. Partha Chatterjee, Dr. Pranab Kumar Das, Dr. Sohel Firdos, Dr. Saibal Kar and Dr. Surajit C. Mukhopadhyay. The team also sought cooperation from several Central & State Government departments like National Sample Survey Organisation (Kolkata), Minority Affairs & Madrasah Education Department of West Bengal, West Bengal Minorities Development & Finance Corporation besides District Magistrate of each MCD.
The CSSSC survey covered 30-50 villages in each MCD as a pilot project: 30 villages of 10 blocks in Cooch Behar; 30 villages of 17 blocks in Murshidabad; 29 villages of 11 blocks in Malda; 30 villages of 7 blocks in Dakshin Dinajpur; 28 villages of 8 blocks in Uttar Dinajpur; 29 villages of 21 blocks in South 24 Parganas; 30 villages of 18 blocks in North 24 Parganas; 30 villages of 20 blocks in Bardhaman and 30 villages of16 blocks in Birbhum district.
Demography of MCDs
Murshidabad is classified as ‘A’ category district of this project for which both the sets of religion specific socio-economic and basic amenities indicators are below the respective national averages with the values being 35.4 and 17.8. Muslims share 63.72% population (as per Census 2001).
Uttar Dinajpur as Muslim minority district belongs to category ‘A’ of the MCD districts with 47.36% Muslim population and religion specific average socio-economic indicator value 29.7 and average basic indicator value 9.2. The SC and ST population of the district are 27.71% and 5.11% respectively.
Dakshin Dinajpur as Muslim minority district belongs to category ‘A’ of the MCD districts with 24.02% Muslim population and religion specific average socio-economic indicator value 44.9 and average basic indicator value 11.6.
Malda is marked as Muslim minority district and belongs to category ‘A’ of the MCD districts with 49.72% Muslim population and religion specific average indicator value 38.2% and average basic indicator value 16.2%. The minority population is roughly about 51% while the Hindus constitute 49% of the total population.
South 24 Parganas as Muslim minority district belongs to category ‘A’ of the MCD districts with 33.24% Muslim population and religion specific average socio-economic indicator value 36.6 and average basic indicator value 21.2.
North 24 Parganas as Muslim minority district belongs to category ‘B’ (sub-category B1) of the MCD districts with 24.22% Muslim population and religion specific average socio-economic indicator value 40.9 and average basic indicator value 47.2.
Birbhum as Muslim minority district and belongs to category ‘A’ of the MCD districts with 35.08% Muslim population and religion specific average socio-economic indicator value 38.7% and average basic indicator value 16.9%.
Nadia as Muslim minority district belongs to category ‘A’ of the MCD districts with 25.4% Muslim population and religion specific average socio-economic indicator
value 35.3 and average basic indicator value 24.
Haorah as Muslim minority district and belongs to category ‘B’ (subcategory B1) of the MCD districts with 24.4% Muslim population and religion specific average socio-economic indicator value 41.6 and average basic indicator value 47.4.
Cooch Behar as Muslim minority district belongs to category ‘A’ of the MCD districts with 23.34% Muslim population and religion specific average socio-economic indicator value 40.2 and average basic indicator value 10.49.
Bardhaman is a Muslim minority district for this project and belongs to category ‘A’ of the MCD districts with 20.36% Muslim population and religion specific average socio-economic indicator value 43.2% and average basic indicator value 35.52%.
Basic Amenities in MCDs
As for basic amenities, the CSSSC found Muslim households far below than those of non-Muslims. Whether you talk about in-house toilet, pucca houses or electrification, more Muslim houses have no such facilities compared to the majority community. Not only this, government schemes also bypass Muslims, like Indira Awas Yojna. More non-Muslims have got benefited from the IAY than Muslims, found the survey.




Murshidabad: Basic Amenities of Household – District Averages
Murshidabad: Among Non-Muslim sample households about 96.88 percent have ownership of houses and in case of Muslim households the number is 96.2 percent but a large number of households do not have in-house toilet facility. Pucca houses provided by IAY/Government, is roughly 2.5 percent for Non-Muslim and 2.17 percent for Muslims across district.
Some 27.74 percent of Muslim sample households have electricity connection whereas about 41.96 percent Non-Muslim sample houses are electrified. Kutcha House 55.66 of Non-Muslim and 62.71 of Muslims.
Uttar Dinajpur: The level of average electrification in the Muslim households is marginally lower at 22.1% compared to 26.67% for non-Muslim households. Once again at the village level, Bara Damodarpur, Birnakundi, Soshilapor, Narayantola, Pardha, Damdalia and Bishnupur report zero or very low percentage. 21.62% Muslim households on average have in-house toilet facilities compared to 37.38% for non-Muslim households.




Murshidabad: Housing, Ownership, Type and Value – District Average
Dakshin Dinajpur: Some 12.79% Muslim households on average have in-house toilet facilities compared to 22.41% for non-Muslim households. Percentage of houses electrified of Muslim houses higher than Non-Muslim, 33.46% for Muslim and 19.55% for Non-Muslim. But in-house Toilet position is very bad of Muslim, only 12.79% in Muslim houses and 22.41% in Non-Muslim houses. Majority of the villages have kutcha houses and although 94.76% of Muslim and 95.0% of non-Muslim households own their houses, only 3.37% of Muslim and a little higher 3.82% of Non-Muslim received it under IAY.
Malda: Pucca houses provided under the IAY, is 1.49 percent for Muslims and 2.98 percent for Non-Muslim. Kutcha House larger than Non-Muslim. Kutcha house of Muslim 73.42 percent & Non-Muslim 59.3 percent. Telephone connection 0.83percent of Muslim and 9.11percent of Non-Muslim.
South 24 Parganas: Some 46.74% Muslim households on average have in-house toilet facilities compared to 53.42% for non-Muslim households. 33.26 percent house of Muslim electrified and 40.31 percent electrified Non-Muslim Houses. Some villages are non-electrified. IAY provided house 1.98 percent to Muslim and 0.88 to Non-Muslim. Kutcha House 60.61 percent of Muslim and 46.85 percent Non-Muslim.




Murshidabad: Other Amenities of Household
North 24 Parganas: Percentage of electrified Muslim houses is 49.74 and Non-Muslim 57.82. Kutcha house percentage very close to Muslim and Non-Muslim, but Pucca houses of Muslim too lower than Non-Muslim -- 16.58 percent for Muslims and 25.89 for Non-Muslims. Muslim Motorcycle owner percentage higher than Non-Muslim. Muslim holding 6.94%, Non-Muslim 5.51%.
Birbhum: The district averages for in-house toilet facilities are 14.02% for Muslims and 15.07% for non-Muslims. Electrification of houses is very similar across communities, 28.18% for Muslims and 29.14% for non-Muslims. Muslims or non-Muslims ‘owned’ larger percentage of these houses are kutcha – 81.65% for Muslims and 79.65% for non-Muslims. The pucca houses provided under the IAY, is slightly higher for non-Muslims – 3.30 percent than the Muslims –1.22 percent.
Nadia: Some 47% Muslim households on average have in-house toilet facilities compared to 74 % on non-Muslim households. The level of average electrification in the Muslim households is appallingly low at 24 % compared to 37 % for non-Muslim households. Majority of the villages have kutcha houses and although 92% of Muslim and 97% of non-Muslim households own their houses, only 6.65 % of the former and a meager 1.55% of the latter received it under the IAY.
Haorah: The level of average electrification in the Muslim households is appallingly low at 68.28% compared to 80.99 % for non-Muslim households. Drainage facility in house of Muslim is 39.22% and Non-Muslim 48.25%. Use of LPG is very limited though it is strikingly low among the Muslim community (1.94% for Muslims as opposed to 6.99% for non-Muslims). Under the IAY Muslim houses 0.32% and Non-Muslim 0.69%.
Cooch Behar: Some 43% Muslim households on average have in-house toilet facilities compared to 53.64% for non-Muslim households. Percentage of houses electrified of Muslim 6.31% and Non-Muslim 14.61%. A mere 4.89 % of the Muslims and 4.71% of non-Muslims have received government help for construction of houses under different schemes including IAY.
Bardhaman: The level of average electrification in the Muslim households is appallingly low at 37.67% compared to 46.82 % for non-Muslim households. Kutcha houses 62.5% of Muslim and 59.66% of non-Muslim households. IAY or other poject given to Muslim 1.4% and 3.27%.
Education in MCDs
Murshidabad: In Murshidabad household survey data shows that about 43 percent of Muslim (sum of male and female) and 47 percent of Non Muslim sample population attend primary school but only about 3 percent of Muslim and 8 percent Non Muslim population completes higher secondary. About 2% of the Muslim sample households are graduates whereas 5% of the Non Muslim households have completed graduation. About 46% of Non Muslim sample population has diploma certificates in vocational education whereas no Muslim sample population holds diploma certificate. Dropout rate of Muslim too higher than Non-Muslim. Upto Primary Muslim Male dropout rate 30%, where Non-Muslim Male only 9.52%, beside this female Muslim dropout rate closed to them, Mulim female 12.5% and Non-Muslim 11.11.




Murshidabad: Level of Education – General Population (in percentage)
Uttar Dinajpur: The level of illiteracy among Muslim households that stands at 48.63% for the male and 56.84% for the female. Of the rest who are deemed literate, the percentage of below primary educated male is 21.72 and female 20.77 and the percentage steadily dwindles as one goes higher up till the secondary level (Male 3.43% and Female 1.95%). Dropout rate of Muslim upto Primary 32% (Male) and 59.26% (Female), but Non-Muslim 28.13% (Male) and 43.75 (female). Upto class Eight dropout percentage of Muslim female too high, 81.48%, but Non-Muslim only 68.75%.
Dakshin Dinajpur: Illiteracy among Muslim households that stands at 48.63% for the male and 56.84% for the female. But Non-Muslim 44.10% (male), 58.39% (female). Below primary Muslim 21.72% (male), 20.77% (female). But Non-muslim 20.90% (male), 17.99% (female). Dropout rate upto primary of Muslim 32% (male), 59.26% (female). Non-Muslim 28.13% (male), 43.75 (female).




Murshidabad: Dropout from School – Community wise District Averages
Malda: Illiteracy of Muslim women lower than Non-Muslim. Where Muslim male Illiteracy rate 50.29%, Non-Muslim 47.46%, there Muslim women Illiteracy rate 53.55, Non-Muslim women 57.91%. Dropout rate satisfactory than Non-Muslim. Upto Primary dropout rate both 33% Muslim male & female, but Non-Muslim rate 51.43% for Male and 65.22% for female. Upto class Eight Muslim male dropout rate higher than Muslim female, 77.78% (Male) & 60% (female). Beside this Non-Muslim rate 85.71% (Male) & 95.65% (female).
South 24 Parganas: Illiteracy among Muslim households that stands at 26.77 % for the male and 34.9 % for the female. Of the rest who are deemed literate, the percentage of below primary educated male is 31.88 and female 28.54 and the percentage steadily dwindles as one goes higher up till the secondary level (Male 4.04 % and Female 2.85 %). The situation is not appreciably better for non-Muslim households, where literacy level is certainly higher below primary 18.56% (Male), 28.49 (Female), but secondary school educated of male is 7.88 % and female, 6.87 %. Dropout rate on average 42.31% of Males and 42.19% of females among the Muslim upto primary and Non-Muslim 44.44% (Male) & 17.39% (female).




Murshidabad: Vocational Education – Community wise District Averages
North 24 Pargansas: Percentage of Average Motorcycle/illiteracy among Muslim households that stands at 23.1% for the male and 24.86% for the female. Of the rest who are deemed literate, the percentage of below primary educated male is 25.66 and female 24.29 and in Primary 27.39% (Male), 27.92% (Female). But in the secondary level it is lower (Male 4.13% and Female 4.88%). The situation is for non-Muslim households in secondary, where literacy level is certainly higher male is 8.96 and female, 6.48., but below primary 21.76% (Male) & 24.38% (female) and in primary 25.61% (male), 25.02 (female). Dropout rate upto primary for Muslim 15.22% (male), 30% (Female), but non-Muslim 12% (male), 17.65% (Female). In Vocational training Muslims are ahead than Non-muslim. Muslim 56.41% in this training & Non-Muslim only 11.9%.
Birbhum: Illiteracy of this district Muslim & Non-Muslim in same row in Primary level. Muslim Illiteracy 28.44% (male), 42.03 (female) and Non-Muslim 28.95% (Male), 39.84% (female). In primary level Muslim 23.02& (male), 22.24 (female)and Non-Muslim are lower, 19.37% (male), 20.08% (female). Also same in higher secondary, Muslim 3.33% (male), 0.77% (female), but Non-Muslim 2.98% (male), 0.96% (female). Dropout rate upto primary for Muslim 52.08% (male), 26.67% (female) and Non-Muslim 50% (male), 35.71% (female).
Nadia: Illiteracy among Muslim households that stands at 43.94% for the male and 45.48% for the female. the percentage of below primary educated male is 22.65 and female 21.56 and the percentage steadily dwindles as one goes higher up till the secondary level (Male 3.06% and Female 1.53%). The situation is not appreciably better for non-Muslim households, below primary 22.14% (male), 22.06% (female).where literacy level is certainly higher, but secondary school going percentage for male is 6.88 and female, 4.06. Dropout rate of Muslim higher than Non-muslim. Upto primary Muslim 36.17% (male), 27.27% (female) and non-muslim 20% (male), 21.74% (female). Upto class eight Muslim female dropout rate too high. Muslim 87.23% (male), 95.45 (feale). But for Non-Muslim 82.5% (male), 43.48% (female).
Haorah: Illiteracy among Muslim households that stands at 17.29% for the male and 22.76% for the female. percentage of primary educated male is 32.07 and female 29.74 and the percentage secondary level Male 1.39% and Female 1.18%, higher secondary ;level is too poor 1.39% (male), 1.18% (female). Non-Muslim household behind the Muslim. Though illiteracy rate lower (10.67% male, 16.5% female), but in primary 20.77% (male), 18.51% (female) and higher secondary level 12.85% (male), 5.53% (female). Dropout rate of Muslim too high upto primary level 48.89% (male), 29.41% (female). But for Non-Muslim 24% (male), 35.71% (female). Upto class eight Muslim dropout rate 91.11% (male), 79.41% (female). But non-muslim 80% (male), 85.71% (female).
Cooch Behar: Illiteracy among Muslim households that stands at 42.82% for the male and 42.27% for the female. Non-Muslim 27.21% (male), 35.84% (female). Below primary educated of Muslim male is 20.43 and female 23.03. Non-Muslim 22.04% (male), 20.38% (female). Dropout rate upto primary of Muslim 27.27% (male), 14.29% (female) and Non-Muslim 21.05% (male), 27.27 (female).
Bardhaman: Illiteracy of Muslim percentage 25.75% (male), 37.20% (female) and Non-Muslim 21.78% (male), 34.29% (female). Below primary Muslims percentage higher than Non-Muslim. Muslim 26.54% (male), 24.73% (female), but Non-Muslim 21.48% (male), 21.06% (female). Dropout rate upto primary Muslim percentage lower than Non-Muslim. Muslim 36.67% (male), 33.33% (female) and Non-Muslim 38.46% (male), 31.03% (female).