الهند: تزايد نسبي في أعداد المسلمين العاملين بالوظائف الإدارية

- خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

رغمًا عن قلة الوظائف الحكومية التي يحصل عليها المسلمون بـ"الهند" لأسباب عديدة مثل عدم الحصول على التعليم الرسمي - إلا أنه صار من الملاحظ زيادة أعداد المسلمين النسبية في وظائف الخدمات الإدارية؛ مثل منصب السكرتارية.

علاوة على ذلك هناك بعض المسلمين يعملون في وظائف إدارية عليا بالعديد من الولايات؛ مثل شغل "جواد عثماني" منصب سكرتير عام ولاية "أوتر براديش" كأحد ثلاثة حصلوا على هذا المنصب بحكومة اتحادية. المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Muslim bureaucrats make a mark in power corridors

Indian Muslims might have missed opportunities in securing government jobs in big numbers due to lack of formal education, but the community has the distinction of having a record number of five IAS officers at the upper echelons of the bureaucracy, heading various departments at the Centre as secretaries.

Though the instance of a Muslim IAS officer as head of department in central government is not a rarity, the presence of six of them as secretary-level officers at one point of time is a record of sorts.

Shumsher K Sheriff (secretary to the Vice-President Hamid Ansari); Syed Nasim Ahmad Zaidi (civil aviation secretary); Naved Masood (secretary, corporate affairs); Mohammad Haleem Khan (disinvestment secretary) and Rajen Habib Khwaja (tourism secretary) are handling various departments at the Centre.

"One should not read too much into such senior-level appointments. It is just a coincidence that these top bureaucrats belong to a particular community. It happened because they had qualified for IAS either in same year or within a gap of one-two years," said a senior ministry of personnel official.

List of secretaries in the government shows that while Zaidi and Khwaja had joined IAS in 1976, three others — Masood, Haleem Khan and Sheriff - had joined the elite service in 1977.

At present, there are 91 secretary-level officers, who are heading various departments at the Centre. While 21 of the departments are headed by non-IAS officers, the rest 70 are headed by IAS officers - mainly of 1974, 1975, 1976 and 1977 batches. Five out of these 70 IAS officers are Muslims.

As far as Muslim IAS officers are concerned, every batch has one, two or more officers from this community. The 1977 batch is, particularly, better represented by Muslims as three of them rose to the rank of secretary in the Union government.

Besides, there are number of Muslim IAS officers who are posted in different states at top level like Uttar Pradesh chief secretary Jawed Usmani, who was earlier posted as additional secretary at the Centre.

Only senior IAS officers, having fairly good professional record, are empanelled for posting as secretary in central government. IAS officers of different seniority level usually serve at the Centre as deputy secretary, director, joint secretary, additional secretary, special secretary and secretary in different ministries or departments.