What we know about West Bengal and India?
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* 30 million Bangladeshis have preferred to emigrate to India in last 40 years because they do not think, BD is a better place to live than India and none of Indians have emigrated to BD.
* Hindus of West Bengal consider Bangladeshis like their brothers and this is why Bengal Government does not enforce Immigration Laws and Delhi has to send Police to arrest and deport Bangladeshis back.
* West Bengal Govt. actually tells Bangladeshis, when Delhi is sending Police and tells them where to hide instead of sleeping on Footpaths of Kolkata.
* There are some Hindu Bengalis, who hate Moslims and cause trouble for Bangladeshis and our Non Moslim Hate Mongering Mollaas propagate those incidents to create a wedge between Bengalis on both sides of the border in name of Allah the most tolerant, just and loving.
* So many Bangladeshis keep crossing border in to India that now India wants to build a Fence.
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Isha Khan <bdmailer@...> wrote:
>
> *Spotlight on West Bengal — the minority report*
>
> How much do we know about our closest neighbour?
>
> I definitely was surprised to learn that Muslims might have better economic
> opportunity in Narendra Modi's Gujrat than the red secular West Bengal.
>
> Full Times of India<http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-03-23/india/29177901_1_west-bengal-muslims-primary-level>article
> over the fold. Hat tip: Comrades from Kafila.
>
> *Bengal worse than Gujarat for Muslims?*
> Abantika Ghosh
>
> NEW DELHI: These are figures the Left Front should be wary of as it prepares
> to defend its citadel of 34 years in West Bengal.
>
> An analysis of data on the Muslim community released by the chief economist
> of the National Council of Applied Economic Research, Abu Saleh Sheriff,
> reveals that the state's minority has benefited little from development
> measures. In terms of human development indices, the Muslims have fared very
> poorly.
> Of the 25.2% Muslim population, only 2.1% have government jobs and 50%
> children are out of school at the primary level. Only 12% go on to complete
> matriculation. These numbers are all the more astonishing given the fact
> that Left swears by its secular credentials and positions itself as a
> protector of minority rights.
>
> Alarm bells have already started ringing, especially after a postmortem of
> the Left's poor showing in the civic elections last year. An important
> factor which could have resulted in the dismal performance was Muslim
> disenchantment. In what may be viewed as the party's efforts to make amends,
> there is a steep 33% hike in the number of Muslim candidates fielded by Left
> Front. It has gone up from 42 in 2006 to 56 this time in the 292-member
> Assembly.
>
> Throughout his lecture, Sheriff — who has also been the member secretary of
> the Sachar panel — spoke of Gujarat and West Bengal in the same breath. In
> fact, he used the data to project the Left-ruled state in a far worse light
> than the state ruled by Narendra Modi, not regarded by many as a benefactor
> of the minorities. And this comparison appeared all the more relevant
> because the West Bengal government had gone out of its way to provide
> shelter to Qutubuddin Ansari, the man who became the face of the post-Godhra
> riots with his folded hands and tearful eyes.
>
> "If a substantial fraction of the state's 25% Muslim population have
> traditionally voted for the alliance it could be because of the projected
> gains of the land reforms even though if you look at the figures, it shows
> that these reforms do not seem to have made any significant difference to
> the living standards of the community. With the elections coming, it is time
> this reality is brought to the knowledge of the public," Sheriff said. He
> was addressing a seminar on "Relative development of West Bengal and
> Socio-Religious Differentials" organized by the Institute of Objective
> Studies at the India
> <http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/India>Islamic Cultural
> Cultural Centre.
>
> Shariff's figures on education, sourced, according to him from the census
> database and the Planning Commission, show 50% Muslim children attend school
> at the primary level, 26% remain in middle school and only 12% complete
> matriculation against 54%, 30% and 13% respectively for SC/STs and 80%, 58%
> and 38% for others.
>
> Of the 90 minority-concentrated districts in the country, West Bengal has
> 12. "The worst are the state government employment figures where even
> Gujarat with its 9.1% Muslim population and with a 5.4% share in jobs is way
> ahead of West Bengal which is by far the worst in the country. We had to try
> very hard to get these figures out from the state government because, for
> obvious reasons, they are very secretive about this," Shariff said.
>
> A look at OBC statistics in Bengal shows only 2.4% of its Muslims belong to
> that category. This, Sheriff says, is not the real picture and simply
> exposes the state government's reluctance to undertake the enumeration
> exercise.
>
> West Bengal election<http://unheardvoice.net/blog/tag/west-bengal-election/>
>
> http://unheardvoice.net/blog/2011/04/12/spotlight-on-west-bengal/
>
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