[Reader-list] India state-run banks 'turn away Muslims': BBC

[A.K. Malik]

Dear Bipinji, 
               Other than in Gujarat anything happening to Muslims is not a National News. No one tries to find out why people are denied their rightfuls, if any. Whether it is girls who are denied admission to a school because there might not have been seats available or students who might not have been able to submit documents known as KYC(Know Your Client) documents for opening Bank Accounts. Mr Javed says he has not made this news but has lifted from BBC-what for just because it talks about Muslim students.Please first find out why has it happened.The Bank Officers would not do it intentionally because AP has a Govt ruled by a muslim supporting party and they could be in trouble for doing it..There must be reasons otherwise.But why in the first instance the Govt has given cheques to students who don't have bank accounts.Is there a rule which says cash can't be given? If the students are below a certain age only thier parents/guardians can open bank
 accounts on their behalf as per the current rules.
My driver who happens to be a Hindu has not been able to open a bank account because he doesn't have the Election ID though he has other documents including Driver's license.
What perhaps Mr Javed wishes is create seats for Muslims in schools even if these are saturated; open bank accounts for Muslims even if they don't have the required KYC documents,lift and upload new items where he finds muslims have been deprived of something.Can someone advise him for God's sake seek your rights as CITIZENS OF INDIA and not as Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs or Christians etc.When would people stop dividing us on the basis of religion?
With regards,
  
(A.K.MALIK)


--- On Sun, 7/25/10, Bipin Trivedi <aliens at dataone.in> wrote:

> From: Bipin Trivedi <aliens at dataone.in>
> Subject: Re: [Reader-list] India state-run banks 'turn away Muslims': BBC
> To: "'Javed'" <javedmasoo at gmail.com>
> Cc: "sarai-list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Date: Sunday, July 25, 2010, 10:29 PM
> Dear Javed,
> 
> Banks deny to open account who does not fulfill their
> criteria like relevant documents, minimum balance
> irrespective of their identity, caste, religions. There are
> so many people other than Muslims could not able to open
> bank account in their first/second attempts. Those who
> denied bank accounts opening, I am sure most of them are
> illegal migrants cannot provide their proper identity and
> unnecessarily making issues by even minority commission, BBC
> reporter without verifying the things other way.
> 
> Reports says 90000 Muslims students of AP denied to open
> bank account. It is wondering no one has noticed this issue
> yet or even not highlighted in national news makes doubt to
> believe this report veracity. However, if few Muslims
> students denied to open bank account in Gujarat, god knows
> what would have happened.
> 
> Thanks
> Bipin Trivedi
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: reader-list-bounces at sarai.net
> [mailto:reader-list-bounces at sarai.net]
> On Behalf Of Javed
> Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2010 4:29 PM
> To: sarai list
> Subject: [Reader-list] India state-run banks 'turn away
> Muslims': BBC
> 
> India state-run banks 'turn away Muslims'
> By Sanjoy Majumder BBC News, Delhi
> 
> State-owned banks in India have been accused of
> discriminating against
> the country's Muslim minority.
> 
> India's minorities watchdog has received a record number of
> complaints
> from Muslims who say they have been prevented from opening
> bank
> accounts.
> 
> India's Muslim community is among the poorest in the
> country.
> 
> Some bankers say it is not so much their religious
> background, but
> their economic status that makes it hard for Muslims to get
> banking
> facilities.
> 
> The National Commission of Minorities says that there has
> been a 100%
> increase in the number of complaints it has received over
> the past
> year from Muslims who say they are being prevented from
> opening
> accounts in state-run banks.
> 
> Reports say the worst case took place in the southern state
> of Andhra
> Pradesh, where some 90,000 Muslim students were unable to
> open
> accounts to deposit scholarship cheques given to them by
> the
> government.
> 
> Official reports frequently put Muslims at the bottom of
> India's
> social and economic ladder - even beneath than low-caste
> Hindus.
> 
> Their economic status means they are often excluded by
> private banks,
> which prefer more well-to-do clients.
> 
> Already a number of reports have suggested that India's
> Muslims fare
> poorly when it comes to getting access to quality education
> or
> employment opportunities.
> 
> This latest finding will add more pressure on a government
> which is
> seen as doing very little for the country's largest
> minority group.
> 
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-10718243
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