Muslims, who constitute the largest religious minority comprising about 13.4% of the total population and about 73% of the total Minority population of the country, lag behind others in terms of economic, health and educational indices.
Economic Indices: The majority of them are engaged in traditional and low paying professions, or are mostly small and marginal farmers, landless agricultural labourers, small traders, craftsmen and so on. Only a few of them are reported to have benefited from various developmental schemes. The other Minority communities on the whole enjoy a comparatively better socio-economic status, although there are segments among the Christians and ....
