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Hyderabad:
Seven Muslim men and women, who got selected in Andhra Pradesh
Public Service Commission Group I Examination and were posted to the
senior position in police and other departments today called on the
Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy to thank him for his policy of
4% reservations for Muslims in education and government jobs.
Six of the seven successful candidates were the beneficiaries of the
4% reservation quota while one Ms. Ayesha Khan was successful in
general category.
The results of the APPSC Group I exams were announced recently in
which about 150 candidates were declared successful.
Congratulating the candidates on their achievement, the Chief
Minister expressed satisfaction that the reservation policy was
yielding results for the Muslim community. This was first time that
seven Muslims got selected for Group I jobs.
“Good. Keep it up. Muslims should fully use the opportunities the
government was trying to provide them”, he said. CM was keen to know
why only one Muslim could get through in the general category and
hoped that they will work hard to further improve the situation.
Speaking on the behalf of the successful candidate, Ayesha Khan told
the Chief Minister that it was thanks to his policy of reservation
that at least a few Muslims were selected.
“60 years ago the efforts of Dr B R Ambedkar to provide reservations
to Muslims could not succeed but now you have succeeded and because
of this we could get this opportunity”, another candidate observed.
Significantly there are three women among the seven successful
Muslims. While Ayesha Khan has been appointed the Joint Collector in
Adilabad district, the six candidates who were selected under
reservation quota opted for different departments. They are Shakella
Bano (deputy superintendent of police, Nalgonda district),
Kareemulah Shareef (DSP-Krishna district), Ms. Yasmeen Basha (deputy
collector Ranga Reddy district), Abdul Quader Jeelani (Divisional
Forest Officer, Krishna), Shaikh Zaheer (Treasury Officer) and Md
Rahmatullah (AAO).
The doors of progress will be open for the office of the Group I in
state services as they can be promoted at a later stage to the
Indian Police Service and Indian Administrative Service. This is
significant because there are only a handful of Muslim IPS and IAS
officers in the state. They include Janna Hussain, Special Secretary
to the Chief Minister, Syed Ilyas Rizvi, the managing director of
Muslim Minorities Financial Corporation, SM Rizvi, vice chairman,
Deccan Infrastructure and Land Holdings and Mohammed Shafeequzzaman.
The Muslim IPS officers in the state include Abdul Khayyum Khan
(Additional Director General of Police, Law and Order), Anwarul Huda
(Head, Enforcement and Vigilance), Ahsan Raza (Anti Corruption
Bureau) Shaikh Mohammed Iqbal (District superintendent of police,
Medak).
The meeting
of the successful candidates with the Chief Minister was organized
by Muslim Welfare Forum to thank the Chief Minister. Speaking on the
occasion secretary M Babar and other officials said that the
reservation policy had already benefited Muslims extensively in the
field of reservation as last year 200 Muslim students got admission
in medical colleges and 4000 in engineering colleges.
But as the case challenging the legal
and constitutional validity of the Muslim Reservations Act 2007 was
still pending in the High Court, the Chief Minister assured that the
government will do everything possible to remove all the hurdles in
the way of its implementation.
As the High Court has allowed the
admission under reservation policy pending the final judgment,
Muslim students will continue to benefit from the reservation quota
in professional colleges this year too.
(siasat.com)
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