Muslims currently constitute about 12.8% of the population of the State of Telangana. The community lag for behind other socio-religious categories (SRCs) in educational, economic, employment, housing, access to credit and other development indicators. The paper advocates timely and strategic developmental interventions to arrest the constant worsening of relative development situation of the community. In this regard, it argues for extending the benefits of Dalit Bandhu Yojna to 1% of the Muslim living in abject poverty in the State.

Muslim population, employement, education, poverty, Telangana, development