Question : ENROLMENT OF MUSLIM STUDENTS

(a) the details of Muslim students enrolled at different levels in various educational institutions in India; and

(b) the details of foreign Muslim students studying in these institutions, State and Union Territory-wise?

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (SHRI M.A.A.FATMI)

(a) While information on students enrolled in different levels in various educational institutions in the country based on religion are not maintained centrally, the Prime Minister`s High Powered Committee on the Social, Economic and Educational Conditions of Muslims in India (Sachar Committee) has estimated based don a sample survey that only one in twenty five students enrolled at the undergraduate level is a Muslim and at the postgraduate level, the number is only one in fifty enrolled students. Using the NSSO data of estimates for currently enrolled children (61st round 2004-05), the Sachar Committee has estimated that 81.8% of Muslim children ages between 6-14 years were enrolled in schools during 2004-05. Using the NCERT data of Seventh All India School Survey (2002), the Committee has estimated the number of Madarsa students at 10.36 lakh students enrolled in Madarsas pursing Primary, Middle, Secondary and Higher Secondary Education.

(b) Information is being collected and will be laid on the Table of the House.