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**HedgeYourBets** · 06-17-2012, 02:17 AM

Please see news item below.

I would say that people who trumpet hollow secularism without questioning such blatant communal discrimination are the real bigots!

It is such communal discrimination that will lay this country to waste!

Minorities dept ?buys? 70% of seats in Maharashtra polytechnics - Times Of India

Maharashtra's minorities department has bought over one shift in government polytechnics and ITIs (industrial training institutes) and reserved 70% of the seats in that batch for six minority religions. Additionally, it is also proposed to start a similar scheme in engineering colleges. The move is aimed at promoting education among Christians, Muslims, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists and Parsis.

Even as the Supreme Court ruled against any religion-based quota, the government, in a week, will start admission to these polytechnics and ITIs and fill 70% seats with minority students in the second shift of all these colleges. The scheme will be operational in the second shift—1.30pm-8.30pm—and run in 15 government polytechnics (2,700 seats) and in 42 ITIs that have 4,344 seats. The remaining 30% seats will be open for general category students.

The proposal to run a second shift came with the noble idea of utilising the existing infrastructure fully. So, a polytechnic institute or an ITI could provide courses in morning and evening shifts with the same infrastructure, but with additional faculty. But the state government decided to do its own unique calculations.

"We have started this scheme as per the directions of the Sachar committee report which states that minority youth need to be brought into mainstream education. The funds for this scheme are offered by my department," said minorities minister Naseem Khan. The Sachar committee, which looked at the social, economic and education status of Muslims in India recommended that skill development initiatives of ITIs and polytechnics should focus on sectors which have high growth potential and in which the Muslim population is concentrated. "These training initiatives should also focus on areas where the minority population concentrated," the committee noted.

But the minorities department felt there was need for more. So, when it received funds for starting a new minority institution, it decided not to set up fresh infrastructure, but take over a shift in the existing colleges. The state's higher and technical education department had sought permission for running a second shift two years ago, but then there weren't enough teachers and staff to start the afternoon batch.

"Now we have appointed people for running the second shift. As the minority department is taking in 70% students, they are footing the bill for the recurring day-to-day expenses," said S K Mahajan, head of the directorate of technical education.

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HedgeYourBets Join Date Aug 2008 Posts 4,655 Senior Member	Please see news item below. I would say that people who trumpet hollow secularism without questioning such blatant communal discrimination are the real bigots! It is such communal discrimination that will lay this country to waste! Minorities dept ?buys? 70% of seats in Maharashtra polytechnics - Times Of India Maharashtra's minorities department has bought over one shift in government polytechnics and ITIs (industrial training institutes) and reserved 70% of the seats in that batch for six minority religions. Additionally, it is also proposed to start a similar scheme in engineering colleges. The move is aimed at promoting education among Christians, Muslims, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists and Parsis. Even as the Supreme Court ruled against any religion-based quota, the government, in a week, will start admission to these polytechnics and ITIs and fill 70% seats with minority students in the second shift of all these colleges. The scheme will be operational in the second shift—1.30pm-8.30pm—and run in 15 government polytechnics (2,700 seats) and in 42 ITIs that have 4,344 seats. The remaining 30% seats will be open for general category students. The proposal to run a second shift came with the noble idea of utilising the existing infrastructure fully. So, a polytechnic institute or an ITI could provide courses in morning and evening shifts with the same infrastructure, but with additional faculty. But the state government decided to do its own unique calculations. "We have started this scheme as per the directions of the Sachar committee report which states that minority youth need to be brought into mainstream education. The funds for this scheme are offered by my department," said minorities minister Naseem Khan. The Sachar committee, which looked at the social, economic and education status of Muslims in India recommended that skill development initiatives of ITIs and polytechnics should focus on sectors which have high growth potential and in which the Muslim population is concentrated. "These training initiatives should also focus on areas where the minority population concentrated," the committee noted. But the minorities department felt there was need for more. So, when it received funds for starting a new minority institution, it decided not to set up fresh infrastructure, but take over a shift in the existing colleges. The state's higher and technical education department had sought permission for running a second shift two years ago, but then there weren't enough teachers and staff to start the afternoon batch. "Now we have appointed people for running the second shift. As the minority department is taking in 70% students, they are footing the bill for the recurring day-to-day expenses," said S K Mahajan, head of the directorate of technical education.
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