Fewer
towards Higher Education
How we come back to the Sachhar Committee Report.
Interestingly, in the transition from secondary
to college education, this percentage is 26%
for Muslims and 34% for other groups. Muslims’
share in graduation is 6% while their share
in population aged 20 years and above is about
double at over 11%. Graduate Attainment Rates
of the Muslims are lower than the SCs and STs
since 1970s (p. 67). The Muslims constitute
only 1.3% of students studying in all courses
in all IIMs in India, and in absolute number
they were only 63 from out of 4743 (p. 68).
In case of IITs, out of 27161 students enrolled
in the different programmes, there were only
894 Muslims; the share of Muslims in the post-graduate
courses is just about 4% but it is even lower
in undergraduate courses at 1.7%. The share
of Muslims in all courses is low in premier
colleges offering streams of regular science,
arts, commerce courses and the premier Medical
Colleges. Their share in MBA courses was found
to be only 1% among both boys and girls. The
following data shows differentials in educational
attainment for graduates and diploma holders
in socio-religious communities. (p. 64). |
