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State committed to providing quota for Muslims: Shabbir

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`Muslim women should be more educated'

HOW DO YOU DO?: Minister for Information & Public Relations Mohd. Ali Shabbir greets a young girl at the Shadan Institute of Medical Sciences in Hyderabad on Tuesday. — Photo: K. Ramesh Babu

HYDERABAD: Information Minister Mohammad Ali Shabbir on Tuesday said the State Government was committed to providing reservation to Muslims.

Addressing a gathering at Shadan Institute of Medical Sciences (SIMS) here, the Minister said Muslims were lagging in literacy even behind the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, when the State registered a literacy rate of 72 per cent. They are economically backward and especially, Muslim women need to be more educated, he said.

He certified that the admission counselling carried out in the institute was transparent and devoid of any snags.

Chairman of Shadan Educational Society Mohd. Vizarath Rasool Khan said managements of minority institutes should give maximum preference to minorities, unlike the Government proposal to allot only 51 per cent of seats to minority students during admissions.

He also said Shadan Educational Society would soon establish an exclusive medical college for Women in the city.

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