EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT AND CAREER OPTION FOR MUSLIM YOUTH IN INDIA: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
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This paper is an endeavour to understand the educational achievement of Muslims as they are still lagging behind in educational accomplishment, particularly in technical education in India. This paper examines Indian culture that discourages or influences the attainment in education of Muslim youths in Indian scenario. It surveys the underlying social aspects of Indian culture that effects the educational attainment of Muslims. The present study explores the issues that hampers Indian Muslim youth’s participation and pursuit in education in general and technical education in particular. The issue of minority, social issues, lack of Muslim minority Technical Institutions and lack of reservation for the Muslims in Technical Institutions of India. These issues have become fairly the hindrances to Muslims in their involvement in Technical Institutions and Career Development in India. Do these factors necessarily obstruct Muslim youth? What other factors of Indian culture contribute to their lack of academic achievement? If so, what is the way forward? The paper attempts to answer some of the issues in an elucidated way. This paper concludes with the measures undertaken by the Government of India for ensuring the opportunities for Muslims in the attainment of education and the reservation policy framed for enhancing the educational achievement of Muslims. It also explores the prospectus of Muslim youths in technical education. The findings revealed that there is a lack of data of participation of religious minorities at various levels of education. The findings also revealed that no data is available regarding the contribution of minorities at higher and technical education levels. No data is available on the participation of minorities in different courses offered by Ministries other than the Ministry of Human Resource Development (medical and paramedical courses), courses offered by Department of Agriculture Research (BVSc, BSc, etc) and Ministry of Textiles like Fashion Technology.References
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