Thread by @asadowaisi

Spoke in Lok Sabha to oppose the Demand for Grants of Ministry of Education because there have been no steps in 6 years to improve the state of education for Muslim minorities or to reduce their drop out rate. The literacy rate of Muslims is 68.5% vs the national rate 74.04% 1/n

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Muslim female literacy rate is 62% vs overall rate of 65.44%. @EduMinOfIndia data says that Muslim enrolment in primary & higher education is only 13.14%. #AISHE says that there are only 19.5 lakh Muslims in higher education. This is only 5.23% of total enrolment 2/n

|@PMOIndia patronisingly wanted to give Qur'an in one hand & computer in another to Muslims. But 2018-19 data says only 16% Muslim households have computers which is 2nd lowest. Only 32% households have internet also the 2nd lowest, only 38% have ability to operate a computer 3/n

The Kundu Committee report identified that Muslims have the highest drop out rate & financial constraints was the biggest factor for it. I'd demanded that the 600cr for Haj subsidy should be abolished & used to educate Muslim girls. That didn't happen 4/n

The report also recognised that the age of 7, there is 100% attendance observed for all minorities, Hindu OBCs and Upper Castes. But for Muslims that number is 90% and for SCs & STs it is 94%. Drop out rate for Muslim, SC, ST kids starts at age 10, for others it starts at 11 5/n

This data proves that Ministry has failed to uplift Muslims. Let us also not forget the issue of AMU Campus in Kishanganj, Bihar, which is located in India's most backward region, #Seemanchal. The B.Ed degree course there has not received affiliation from NCTE till now 6/n

I demand that govt allocate 500 cr to start new courses at AMU Kishanganj. People of Seemanchal are in dire need of quality educational institutions. Also, why was #JamiaMilliaIslamia not listed as an Institute of Eminence? Why such bias? 7/n

I condemn the efforts being made to force homogeneity through the #NationalEducationPolicy. Our country's beauty is in its heterogeneous character. The Policy says nothing about promotion of Urdu, it has no strategies to address the high drop out rate of Muslims 8/n

Out of @EduMinOfIndia's total budget, 44000 cr is from Education Cess & 4800cr from National Investment Fund. Basically the fate of allocation for education depends on cess collections & disinvestment proceeds. If tomorrow these collections/proceeds come down, who'll suffer? 9/n

The total expenditure on education as part of the total budget in 2015 was 3.8%, it has now come down to 2.7%. This is the seriousness that the govt has towards education. 10/n

Under National Institute of Open Schools, there's a proposal to teach Ramayana & Gita. There's no objection to this. But why not Qur'an Bible & Guru Granth Sahib? Also would this not violate Article 28 which bars religious instruction in state run institutions? 11/n

Why is there such disregard for India's diversity? Every effort is made to bring in Hindutva ideology into education

Government MUST make scholarships for minorities demand driven. Every applicant must get scholarship. Depriving 1cr kids of scholarship is not acceptable n/n