Hyderabad: The MIM on Saturday told the Backward Classes Commission that it wanted an increase in reservations between 9 and 12 per cent for socially, economically and educationally backward Muslims to reflect the proportion of backward sections in the community or the proportion of Muslims to the state’s population, by overcoming all legal hurdles.
MIM MLAs, led by party’s Floor leader in TS Assembly Akbaruddin Owaisi, submitting a memorandum to the commission, said, “We feel that earmarking 12 per cent quota for SEBC Muslims under the BC reservations is the most crucial for TS government’s onerous task, especially in view of the unenviable experience of erstwhile united Andhra Pradesh in providing the 4 per cent quota for SEBC Muslims in the state.”
The MIM said that previous governments had lost the opportunity to secure the 4 per cent quota for Muslims by getting the legislation relating to the same placed under the ninth Schedule of the Constitution of India with the help of the Union Government.
MIM told the commission that the G. Sudheer commission of inquiry showed that nearly 82 per cent of the Muslim population in Telangana remained socially and educationally backward. It requested the commission to extend time for making submissions and suggestions.
It urged the commission to visit other states, particularly Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala and Bihar that have been implementing reservation for the backward sections of Muslims, so that the models adopted by them can be adapted by TS.
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Old city has 18-hr power cuts: Owaisi
The Bhadradri thermal power project in Manuguru in Khammam district, where work has been halted by a National Green Tribunal order over environmental issues, would be commissioned in 2017-18, power minister G. Jagadish Reddy told the Assembly on Saturday.
He said the government was taking all the measures to put the project back on track. MIM floor leader Akbaruddin Owaisi rubbished the claims of the state government over 24x7 power supply.
He said the Old City had been witnessing power cuts every day, which extended to 18 hours in some areas. Mr Jagadish Reddy said the power cuts were due to the poor transmission and distribution network.
