Post date: Feb 22, 2010 9:00:26 AM
My take on why Sachar Committee report on Muslims, is a totally biased, misguided and a politically motivated report:
(1) They do not take into consideration that most muslims belonged to the dalit community which is also poor. Hence, You dont expect a whole community to become richer in 50 years compared to generations of poverty.
(2) The population growth rate in muslims. Report says this:
That there is “substantial demand from the community for fertility regulation and for modern contraceptives” and over 20 million couples are already using contraceptives. “Muslim population growth has slowed down as fertility has declined substantially”. This clarifies and puts an end to any propaganda that there has been a Muslim conspiracy afoot since 1947 to reproduce mightily, and that a danger that the Indian Hindus will be reduced to a minority due to high birth rate of Muslims.
This is a political statement and not facts or numbers.
India and the world did not know about population and its perils back in 1950's.
After 1980's, everyone knew that large size population is unsustainable and a threat to environment. Yet, the irony is Muslim population grew from 11 crores to 22 crores, today. (A 100% increase in last twenty years) While at the same time Hindu population grew from 74 to 90 crores (which is 21% rise in last twenty years)
Now, considering 30% of 11 crores from muslim population(3.3 crores) and 30% of hindus from 74 crores (22.2 crores) in baby making age :)
a) 3.3 crores muslims = 1.66 crore families produced 11 crore children
b) 22.2 crore Hindus = 11.1 crore families produced 16 crore children
Now that makes it, an average of 6.62 babies per muslim family and 1.44 babies per Hindu family from 1990-2010.
And yet report says of something about hindu danger - muslim danger, instead of professional statistics.
(3) Most importantly, An average indian remained poor till 1990. After 1990 economic liberalization, indians started becoming richer.
An average Indian is 10 times richer today than he was in 1990.
(I am considering 10 as an example, you can put up real figure if you know, the end result hardly differs)
So, for Hindu kids, they are richer by, 10/1.44 = 6.94 times
and for muslim kids, they are richer by, 10/6.62 = 1.51 times.
So, muslims were oppressed by hindus into making babies among themselves, such that there wealth gets distributed among more number of kids and the kids remain relatively poor and they get reservation from government, because the government does not have competent statisticians and its a regular business of vote banks. Wow, a touching story. The relatively poor kids also have a higher chance of accepting the Hindu-Muslim oppression conspiracy stories!
Verdict: Hindu's did family planning at the right time, they became richer, Muslims didn't.
Irrespective of all shit, everyone please stop making too many babies.
Important Note:
My calculations and assumptions may be wrong somewhere, here and there ~ :0 not an expert in this field and not a statistician.