{"id":32054,"date":"2018-10-29T12:26:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T06:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=32054"},"modified":"2018-10-29T12:26:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T06:56:22","slug":"just-4-9-of-higher-edu-teachers-are-muslim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/just-4-9-of-higher-edu-teachers-are-muslim\/","title":{"rendered":"Just 4.9% of higher edu teachers are Muslim\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/just-49-of-higher-edu-teachers-are-muslim\/article22433393.ece\"><strong>Just 4.9% of higher edu teachers are Muslim<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Recently released All India Survey on Higher Education for 2016-17<\/p>\n<p><strong>Survey results<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Lower Muslim representation<\/strong>: At 4.9%, Muslim representation among teachers in higher educational institutions in India is much lower than the community\u2019s proportion in India\u2019s population (14.2%)<\/li>\n<li>The representation of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes is also lower than the populations of the two categories\n<ul>\n<li>Representation of SCs at 8.3% of the total number of teachers in higher educational institutions, ST representation is 2.2%<\/li>\n<li>The SCs account for 16.6% of India\u2019s population and STs about 8.6%<\/li>\n<li>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%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Survey done by<\/u><\/strong>: Ministry of Human Resource Development<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just 4.9% of higher edu teachers are Muslim\u00a0 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\u2019s proportion in India\u2019s population (14.2%) The representation of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/just-4-9-of-higher-edu-teachers-are-muslim\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Just 4.9% of higher edu teachers are Muslim\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704781645},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}