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Just 4.9% of higher edu teachers are Muslim
Context
Recently released All India Survey on Higher Education for 2016-17
Survey results
- Lower Muslim representation: At 4.9%, Muslim representation among teachers in higher educational institutions in India is much lower than the community’s proportion in India’s population (14.2%)
- The representation of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes is also lower than the populations of the two categories
- Representation of SCs at 8.3% of the total number of teachers in higher educational institutions, ST representation is 2.2%
- The SCs account for 16.6% of India’s population and STs about 8.6%
- At the all-India level, teachers belonging to the general category are more than half, that is, 58.2% of the total number of teachers in India; OBCs follow at 31.3%
Survey done by: Ministry of Human Resource Development
