You are participating in a debate where you have to provide reasons to support the following statement:

‘Muslims are a marginalized community’. Using the data provided in this chapter, list two reasons that you would give.

Muslims are marginalized community because of the following reasons:

(a) Firstly, if we look facts than more than 63% of the Muslims live in Kuccha houses while the percentage of people of majority is less than the people of minority.

(b) Secondly, we always talk about that India is a secular country and it is fastest growing or developing nation in the world but still only 30% of Muslims have access to electricity which is quite less than those of majority people.

(c) Only 19.4% of Muslims have access to piped water while 25.3% of Hindus have access to it.

(d) If we look the literacy rates by religion wise than these are lowest for the Muslims according to 2001 census.