Report and Pics by Hemanath Padubidri
Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (RD/SP)
 
Udupi, Jul 28: State Minority Commission chairman Khusro Khureshi arrived here on Tuesday July 28 morning, after visiting Gulbarga, Bidar, Hassan, and Chikmagalur districts.

 
Addressing the media persons, here on Tuesday morning, at  the office of the district deputy commissioner, Khureshi said that the girls’ hostels for backward classes are functioning in the district while Morarji Desai School is yet to be sanctioned with a grant of Rs 19 lac, as it faces the shortage of students.  The NGOs should take initiatives to promote education in minority communities.  77% of admissions to Morarji Desai School will be reserved for the students from minority communities and rest for the general category, he added.
 
Meanwhile, Khureshi urged the NGOs that are promoted by minority communities, to strive to lay special emphasis on the education of their community children.  The communal clashes take the lives of innocent victims in the district, and the educated people in the society hardly get themselves involved with such communal clashes.  If the minority community takes keen interest in promoting education among their own community, with quality education, the incidents of disruption of law and order situation would not arise, he emphasized. 
 
Acting deputy commissioner Prasanna Kumar, SP Pravin Madhukar Pawar, Tahsildar Prasanna, minority and backward classes department deputy director Girish, Wakf Board district president Budan Basha Saheb and others were present on the occasion.