Monthly income of almost eight in 10 Muslim households in India’s rural West Bengal is only Rs5,000 or less, which is barely above the cut-off level of income for poverty line for a family of five.
This was stated in a report by Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on the status of Muslims in West Bengal.
The report titled “Living reality of Muslims in West Bengal” said that Muslims constitute 27 per cent of the West Bengal’s population, as much as 38.3 per cent households from the minority community in rural parts of the state earn Rs 2,500 or less per month. Only 3.8 per cent of these households reported earning Rs15,000 and above per month.
Considerably, 13.2 per cent Muslim adults in the West Bengal state do not possess voter identity cards.
Muslims in the state stand deprived of basic amenities such as tap water, drainage, equal opportunities in employment and even LPG cylinders.
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