Modi's Lies on Minorities Exposed
Modi's lies got exposed once again. During his campaign in Bengal Modi commented that Muslims in Gujarat are far better than Muslims of Bengal. He quoted some statistics of 2001. Here are some hard facts.
Facts:
1) " According to the NUEPA report, in the three years (2007-08, 2008-09 and 2009-10), respectively 28.13, 28.28 and 32.30 of every 100 primary school children in West Bengal were Muslims, while 25.25 per cent of the State's population is Muslim. West Bengal's figures for Muslim students' enrolment at the primary level are better than the national average of 10.49 per cent (in 2007-08), 11.03 per cent (in 2008-09) and 13.48 per cent (in 2009-10) respectively, while Muslims make 13.43 per cent of India's population. West Bengal's record during Left Front regime is far better than that of Gujarat. There, Muslim students' enrolment at the primary level was 4.57 per cent (2007-08), 4.73 per cent (2008-09) and 6.45 per cent (2009-10). Among all States and Union Territories, West Bengal ranks sixth in primary school level enrolment among Muslim students.
In 2009-10, upper primary school enrolment among Muslim students in West Bengal was 26.46 per cent. At the elementary school level it was 30.56 per cent, more than the proportion of Muslims in the State's population. The State thus occupied the sixth position among all States and Union Territories. The figures for West Bengal are better than the national average of 11.89 per cent and 13.02 percent respectively and far ahead of Gujarat: for that State the corresponding figures are 6.44 per cent and 6.45 per cent respectively.
2) The West Bengal Minority Development Corporation had disbursed term-loans and micro-credit to 1,82,646 persons till January 2011. This is the best record of credit disbursement among all minority finance corporations. The share of bank loans for the minorities in the total priority sector loans of banks in the State increased from 7.89 per cent as on March 31, 2009, to 14.76 per cent as on March 31, 2010. This grew to cross the national level target (15 per cent) and reached 15.01 per cent as on September 30, 2010. At the national level, it is still to reach 10 per cent.
3) In most parts of India, landlessness among Muslims has increased after l947. West Bengal is an exception. The success of land reforms under Left-led governments here has significantly benefited Muslims. Among rural households in West Bengal, Muslim households, which constitute 30.9 per cent, had access to 25.6 per cent of the total cultivated land during Left Front regime. This is second only to Jammu and Kashmir, which has a much higher percentage of Muslim citizens who got access to 30.3 per cent of cultivable land in the State during Left Front regime. Of the land pattas distributed in West Bengal during the period 1977-2010, 18 per cent went to Muslim households.
Distressed People of ‘Vibrant Gujarat’
(Based on the data provided in Update Series 19: Narendra Modi's Gujarat: Fact and Fiction edited and published by Shubro Mallick, 14-B, BB Block, Salt Lake, Kolkata 700 064. Printed at New Rainbow Lamination, Kolkata – 700 009,, November 2013)
1) Number of poor in Gujarat rose 39.06%
The number of poor families in Gujarat villages has risen by at least 30 per cent over the last decade, going by Modi Sarkar’s (the state government) own data.
In April 2000, there were 23.29 lakh BPL families in the villages. The number rose to 30.49 lakh as on June 26th 2012, as per the ‘dynamic list’ of the state rural development commissioner. According to the list, the increase in the number of poor families in villages was 39.06 percent.
2) Gujarat slips in poverty reduction rank of planning commission
From 2010 to 2012, Gujarat witnessed 6.4 percent reduction in poverty, which is below the National average of 7.9 percent. Gujarat stood 11th among the 20 major states, where the then West Bengal under the Left Front government observed higher rate of reduction of poverty in the year 2010-2011.
3) Gujarat Hunger Index is Equal to World’s Most Distressed Countries: Admits Modi Government
Gujarat is one of the hungriest states, fifth from the bottom in 17 states group. The states that have their scores worse than Gujarat are just four. Madhya Pradesh is the worst of all Indian states with an ‘extremely alarming’ score of 30.90 GHI, almost at par with the hunger index of Ethiopia and Liberia, both having GHI of about 31 percent. Gujarat having GHI of 24.69 are worse off than Zimbabwe, Tanzania and Haiti almost at par with Bangladesh.
4) Every third child in Gujarat is Underweight
Though the Gujarat CM Narendra Modi, BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate has been waxing eloquent about the Gujarat model of development, the latest report of CAG utters something else on the admissions of the state government about malnourished and underweight children. Every third child of Gujarat is either malnourished or underweight. The most distressed condition of the children in Gujarat is in Ahmedabad, the capital state scores 85000 in this regard.