Muslim representation in govt. jobs abysmal in Kerala, says study

In a study conducted by Kerala Sashra Sahitra Parishad, the representation of Muslims in central government and state government affairs says that it is vastly low compared to population numbers. Between 2004 and 2019, the report, which includes socio-economic and political changes in the state titled ‘Kerala Studies 2.0’, has recently been published.

Although the work and livelihood of the study constituted 27.3% of the population in 2019, the state’s representation of government government affairs is only 13.8%. The percentage of lack of representation is 98.2. In 2004, they made up 26.9% of the population and only 11.4% of government employees belonged to the community. The percentage of lack of representation was 136.

Although 30.2% of the sample size in the 2019 survey belongs to the Muslim community, it was found that only 1.8% of its representations in central government affairs. In terms of population, the lack of representation in central affairs, including the armed forces, was an amazing 1,578%. The questionnaire says that the non -representation of Muslims in state government affairs is 91%.

In the case of programmed caste communities, representation of the population in 2004 and 2019 was 9% and 9.1%, respectively. However, in those years, their representations in government affairs were 7.6% and 8.5%, respectively. The planned tribes made up 1.2% of the population in 2004 and 1% in 2019, but they were represented in government affairs.

However, Hindu upper caste communities are excessively represented by 83% in state government affairs and 128% in central works. In the report, 26% of the population of the population, which does not receive any reservation assistance, points to the corner of 39.9% of the government affairs (the central government 45.5% and 38.2% of the state government). However, they take 10% quota under the economically weak sections category, which leads to “increasing imbalance ..

According to the survey, in 2004, the upper caste Hindus made up 24.1% of the population. Representation of state government affairs was 13.8%. In 2019, their population fell to 15.2% and the representation of government affairs was 26.7%.

In 2004 and 2019, Hindu retroaches made 28.5% and 31.2% of the population, respectively, respectively, and in these years, their representations in government affairs were 30.4% and 33.6%.

In 2004, Christians formed 18.3% of the population, and their representations in government affairs were 20.6%. In 2019, upper class Christians made 12.2% and lower -class Christians made 4% of the population. The representation of government affairs was 12.4% and 4.2%, respectively.