Hyderabad, February 04: A delegation comprising politicians, civil society members and academicians from the Maulana Azad National Urdu University (Manuu), submitted a memorandum to chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy seeking Rs 3000 crore for the Muslim community in the coming financial year.
The proposal presented by the delegation is based on the resolution reached at a recent round table meet organized by Centre for Study of Social Exclusive and Inclusive Policy (CSSEIP) at Manuu. Cutting across party lines politicians who participated in the meet held on January 19 agreed that the allocations made for Muslims in the previous budget was not commensurate with their population.
They said that the Muslim community which makes up 11 % of the state’s population requires 10 times more than the Rs 300 crore, which was the allocation for the entire minority communities. They demanded Rs 3000 crore in the planned budget of 2012-13 financial year.
Director for CSSEIP, Kancha Illiah, said that the CM had reacted positively to their proposals. “The CM promised that he would look into our proposals. But he also pointed out that lack of necessary resources would make it difficult to agree to the whole proposal. We demanded setting up of Maulana Azad Multimedia Centres in 27 district and town headquarters where Muslims constitute more than 30 percent of the population.
In the first year we asked for five such centers,” he said. The proposal presented by Manuu demands an annual allocation of Rs 100 crore for the development of multimedia centers. The delegation included Muslim leaders from the Congress, TDP, TRS, Jamaat-e-Islami and Confederation of Voluntary Associations.
–Agencies