The Chief Minister told Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen leader Akbaruddin Owaisi that the panel was working hard and evaluating all the data. He said he firmly believed that the state can only progress if all sections of people are happy and promised the Muslims will get their share in Telangana. The Telangana Rashtra Samithi had promised during the elections that Muslims will be provided 12 per cent reservation in proportion to their population. Muslims in Telangana currently enjoy 4 per cent reservation in education and employment under a separate category of backward classes. He assured Owaisi that all vacancies will be filled in minorities welfare department and Wakf Board to ensure that the money allocated for the welfare is spent.
The 12 per cent reservations will take the overall quota to over 50 per cent, which is why the state will have to request the central government for a constitutional amendment. KCR announced setting up minorities residential society on the lines of SC residential society to set up residential educational institutions and promised to clear hurdles in a new scheme announced by him to send students from minorities abroad for higher education.
