Shailesh1024
New member
no obviously not....you have so many examples of people continuously fighting with each other for reservations for various castes....just ridiculous.
Are all religion's treated equally in India???
Rahil Khan
Rahil Khan
23rd December 2009's Times of India front page says it all
hunny.aroda
Hunny Aroda
I don't think all religions are treated equally,some religions are seen with lots of suspicion.
On religious discrimination, India next only to Iraq: US thinktank
Sachin Parashar, TNN 22 December 2009, 09:09am IST
NEW DELHI: For India, international recognition of its free and pluralistic society has always been hard to come by and while things are changing, they are clearly changing slowly. A study carried out by Washington-based Pew Research Centre, the highly respected US thinktank, said India is next only to Iraq when it comes to social hostility and religious discrimination perpetrated by individuals and groups.
The study titled `Global Restrictions on Religion' took into account the situation in as many as 198 countries, North Korea being the only notable exception, to derive the conclusion. India was just below Iraq and well above countries like Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan when it came to social hostility in the country. Pakistan is at the third place right below India.
The study, which claims to cover 99.5% of the world population, deals with restrictions imposed on religion not just by social groups and individuals but also by the government. Even in the case of government induced restrictions, India fares badly with its position in the top 40 countries out of the 198 mentioned.
Even though the report says that "the highest overall levels of restrictions are found in countries such as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Iran, where both the government and society at large impose numerous limits on religious beliefs and practices'' India is ranked well above them in the social hostility index.
While India has fared badly on both, China has done remarkably well when it comes to social hostility even though it has done badly in the government imposed restrictions section. "Vietnam and China, for instance, have high government restrictions on religion but are in the moderate or low range when it comes to social hostilities. Nigeria and Bangladesh follow the opposite pattern: high in social hostilities but moderate in terms of government actions,'' it says.
The report clubs India with Sri Lanka, Ethiopia and Bangladesh as countries where large segments of the population want to protect the special place of one particular religion. This is how it explains the high social hostility index for these countries. "Many of the restrictions imposed in these countries are driven by groups pressing for the enshrinement of their interpretation of the majority faith, including through Shariah law in Muslim societies and Hindutva movement in India which seeks to define India as a Hindu nation,'' says the report.
In preparing this study, states the report, the Pew Forum devised a battery of measures, phrased as questions, to gauge the levels of government and social restrictions on religion in each country. "To answer these questions, Pew Forum researchers combed through 16 widely cited, publicly available sources of information, including reports by the US State Department, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, the Council of the European Union, the United Kingdom's Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Human Rights Watch, the International Crisis Group, the Hudson Institute and Amnesty International,'' it states.
abhishreshtha
Abhi Shreshtha
hmmmmmmmmmmmm............. see whn such type of questn arises thn the direct ans for such qustn tht cam in our mind is obviously NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!...... but thn sum one will say tht muslims are not treated equally some will say tht SC ST and many others are not treated buttttt the main thng is dis treating religions inequally came widout mof govt variouss wierd rules thn tht gave boost to inequality..........
well i jus pray tht people jus forget wht their religion is but alwys remeber tht they are HUMANNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!
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well i jus pray tht people jus forget wht their religion is but alwys remeber tht they are HUMANNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!
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layball:layball:layball:layball:layball:layball:layball:i think its not treated equally...though the younger generation is not religious but the system discriminates between every religion...and this is because our system is occupied by the most religious people(just frm outside) who really show a sense of care and security towards one religion and from within they just want money...
komal agrawal
New member
It's treated equally by law and not by heart !
UPA fights shy of report on Muslim job quota
New Delhi, New Delhi: After Liberhan, the UPA government is trying to hide another commission's report because it seems like an even bigger political hot potato. Unlike Liberhan, though, the broad contours of the Ranganath Mishra commission's recommendations are clear: 15% reservation in jobs and educational institutions, and social sector schemes for Muslims and other minorities. The government is in no position to implement the recommendations without major changes in existing rules and regulations, and that is one reason why it is sitting tight on the report.
The National Commission on Religious and Linguistic Minorities was set up on October 29, 2004, under the chairmanship of retired chief justice of India Ranganath Mishra, with Tahir Mahmood, Anil Wilson and Mohinder Singh as its members. It submitted its report to the government two-and-a-half-years ago on May 22, 2007. "It will have to be tabled some day, but no date has been decided," said minister for parliamentary affairs Pawan Bansal blandly.
The commission's report makes controversial suggestions like 15% reservation for minorities in education and government jobs, and social welfare schemes like NREGA and the PM's Rozgar Yojna.
It has also recommended the inclusion of Muslim and Christian Dalits in the list of scheduled castes/scheduled tribes (SC/STs). "We will have to submit the report to parliament sooner or later, but I don't think it will ever be implemented," says a UPA minister who declined to be identified.
The government has been dragging its feet on the report for fear that it will rake up a political storm. The idea is likely to be vehemently opposed by the BJP. In fact, there is no unanimity on the subject even within the Congress party. In its election manifesto for the 2009 Lok Sabha polls, the Congress committed itself to adopting the same reservation policy for minorities at the Centre as had already been introduced in states like Kerala, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, but so far there has been no forward movement on the same. These three states have ensured reservations either by declaring Muslims as backward or including a sub-quota for Muslims within the OBC quota.
Minorities affairs minister Salman Khursheed has already indicated that the government will not be able to implement the recommendations on minority reservations as it may not be constitutionally permissible. The Mishra commission, however, believes that the recommendations only require changes in existing rules on including reservations.
The BJP has all along been accusing the Congress party of appeasing the minorities, particularly the Muslim community. However, parties that are eyeing Muslim vote-banks, like the Lok Janshakti Party and the Rashtriya Janata Dal, have been demanding that the report be implemented at the earliest. These parties are planning a major rally in the capital to press the government to accept the recommendations. "There is nothing controversial about this demand. This is the single most important issue for the minorities," says Abdul Khaliq, LJP general secretary.
The Ranganath Mishra commission was asked to suggest criteria for the identification of socially and economically backward sections among religious and linguistic minorities, and also measures for their welfare, including reservations in education and government employment. It was also asked to suggest necessary constitutional, legal and administrative modalities for the implementation of its recommendations.
On the educational front, the commission has recommended 10% reservations for Muslims out of the total 15% for minorities. The remaining 5% is for the other minorities.
The commission has made it clear that though some minor adjustments can be made in the 15% earmarked seats, "in no case shall any seat within the recommended 15% go to the majority community."
Minority community candidates who can get in through the normal merit list will be excluded from the 15% limit. Mishra has also recommended that the concessions available in terms of lower eligibility criteria for admissions and lower fees to SC/STs be extended to the minorities.
On the question of government jobs, the commission has said that "since Muslims are underrepresented and sometimes wholly unrepresented in government employment, they should be regarded as backward in this respect within the meaning of that term as used in Article 16(4) of the constitution, and that 15% posts in all cadres and grades under the central and state governments should be earmarked for them". It has made a similar recommendation in respect of social sector schemes.
New Delhi, New Delhi: After Liberhan, the UPA government is trying to hide another commission's report because it seems like an even bigger political hot potato. Unlike Liberhan, though, the broad contours of the Ranganath Mishra commission's recommendations are clear: 15% reservation in jobs and educational institutions, and social sector schemes for Muslims and other minorities. The government is in no position to implement the recommendations without major changes in existing rules and regulations, and that is one reason why it is sitting tight on the report.
The National Commission on Religious and Linguistic Minorities was set up on October 29, 2004, under the chairmanship of retired chief justice of India Ranganath Mishra, with Tahir Mahmood, Anil Wilson and Mohinder Singh as its members. It submitted its report to the government two-and-a-half-years ago on May 22, 2007. "It will have to be tabled some day, but no date has been decided," said minister for parliamentary affairs Pawan Bansal blandly.
The commission's report makes controversial suggestions like 15% reservation for minorities in education and government jobs, and social welfare schemes like NREGA and the PM's Rozgar Yojna.
It has also recommended the inclusion of Muslim and Christian Dalits in the list of scheduled castes/scheduled tribes (SC/STs). "We will have to submit the report to parliament sooner or later, but I don't think it will ever be implemented," says a UPA minister who declined to be identified.
The government has been dragging its feet on the report for fear that it will rake up a political storm. The idea is likely to be vehemently opposed by the BJP. In fact, there is no unanimity on the subject even within the Congress party. In its election manifesto for the 2009 Lok Sabha polls, the Congress committed itself to adopting the same reservation policy for minorities at the Centre as had already been introduced in states like Kerala, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, but so far there has been no forward movement on the same. These three states have ensured reservations either by declaring Muslims as backward or including a sub-quota for Muslims within the OBC quota.
Minorities affairs minister Salman Khursheed has already indicated that the government will not be able to implement the recommendations on minority reservations as it may not be constitutionally permissible. The Mishra commission, however, believes that the recommendations only require changes in existing rules on including reservations.
The BJP has all along been accusing the Congress party of appeasing the minorities, particularly the Muslim community. However, parties that are eyeing Muslim vote-banks, like the Lok Janshakti Party and the Rashtriya Janata Dal, have been demanding that the report be implemented at the earliest. These parties are planning a major rally in the capital to press the government to accept the recommendations. "There is nothing controversial about this demand. This is the single most important issue for the minorities," says Abdul Khaliq, LJP general secretary.
The Ranganath Mishra commission was asked to suggest criteria for the identification of socially and economically backward sections among religious and linguistic minorities, and also measures for their welfare, including reservations in education and government employment. It was also asked to suggest necessary constitutional, legal and administrative modalities for the implementation of its recommendations.
On the educational front, the commission has recommended 10% reservations for Muslims out of the total 15% for minorities. The remaining 5% is for the other minorities.
The commission has made it clear that though some minor adjustments can be made in the 15% earmarked seats, "in no case shall any seat within the recommended 15% go to the majority community."
Minority community candidates who can get in through the normal merit list will be excluded from the 15% limit. Mishra has also recommended that the concessions available in terms of lower eligibility criteria for admissions and lower fees to SC/STs be extended to the minorities.
On the question of government jobs, the commission has said that "since Muslims are underrepresented and sometimes wholly unrepresented in government employment, they should be regarded as backward in this respect within the meaning of that term as used in Article 16(4) of the constitution, and that 15% posts in all cadres and grades under the central and state governments should be earmarked for them". It has made a similar recommendation in respect of social sector schemes.
kapiljangra25
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no u go to certain areas in UP and other parts of the country and they treat other religion like alien
pathakhiman
Himanshu Pathak
Actually there should not be any caste, religion or any such discrimination, there should be only INDIANISM.