Owaisi seeks minorities be treated on par with SCs/STs
The Hindu
Money spent for Minority welfare less than that spent on Haritha Haram, says MIM floor leader
MIM Legislative Party leader Akbaruddin Owaisi has questioned the discriminatory stipulation with regard to income limit for SC, ST, OBC and Minorities, vis-a-vis the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS), when it comes to applicability of schemes.
As per the government orders, for a person to be considered as belonging to EWS, the family income from all sources should be below ₹8 lakh, whereas for other sections, the limit is ₹1 lakh in rural areas and ₹2 lakh in urban, he pointed out, and sought equalising the income limit to ₹8 lakh for all sections.
During his address on minority welfare in the State Legislative Assembly on Monday, Mr. Owaisi has made an impassioned plea for treatment of minority communities on par with the Scheduled Castes and Tribes, in view of the educational and economic backwardness among Muslims who constitute large chunk of minorities in the State.