Date:01/08/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/08/01/stories/2007080151251600.htm

National

Muslims seek job reservation

Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI: About a dozen non-political groups of Muslims have formed a Joint Committee of Muslim Organisations for Empowerment, demanding recognition of the community as a backward class with a separate sub-quota for reservation in government jobs.

As the first step, the committee demanded that a discussion should be held in the coming session of Parliament on the status of Muslims in the country.