The above mentioned “Social Security Scheme” is a golden opportunity for the poor Muslims who are living below the poverty line. In the undergoing court case of 5% reservations for Muslims, the Andhra Pradesh state lawyer presented the statistics in the Supreme Court stating that 40% of the Muslim population in India is living on poverty line and 45% below poverty line.
The poverty line is defined as the income of Rs. 5000 (US $110) per annum. The urban Muslims cannot imagine the conditions of the poor Muslims in the far off rural areas. Most of the Muslim organisations too are based in the cities. The leaders have any rarely observed the pathetic condition in which the poverty-ridden Muslims are living in the villages. The leaders go to such places only when a riot breaks out and shops and houses are burnt away. They go not to console but, in reality, for increasing their vote bank.

A great service to the Ummah can be rendered if the Muslim organisations take notice of this suggestion.

Under the Social Security Scheme if they fund 50% only with the help of the rich Muslims, crores of the Muslim families can get a benefit at the time of their daughters’ marriages, children’s higher education, sickness or death. The city people do not realise how big the help of only Rs. 10,000 is to a poor family living in the huts. There are many organisations that are collecting Zakat etc. and running several social welfare projects, still the volume of the work does not suffice to more than 5% of the Muslim population. These organisations can not continue the financial aid for long due to many reasons. Their access too is not so wide that they can keep going to the far off places and keep in touch with them for a long time. The best way to help the poor Muslims is to get them insured for life.

The Muslim political parties who always lament over the injustice of the government with the Muslims can take this opportunity and cash it. As a reward, not only they will increase their vote bank but also the return of the life-after. They can use their party workers on a military scale in the same way as they do on the occasion of the elections, and send them to the rural areas, identify the units and make representation to the State. Without spending anything from their pockets or party’s undeclared reserves, by proper representation only they can get the 50% aid from the state government and get lakhs of Muslims benefited from the life insurance.

The political, social and religious organisations can help the poor who are working as rickshaw pullers, vegetable vendors, maid servants, etc. If these organisations insure the groups of such workers under the Group insurance scheme, the poor will get an opportunity to educate their children well and their daughters will be married without begging for donations and contributions. This service to the poor will increase the vote bank too for the political parties.
Instead of sympathising with the poor Muslims only at the time of elections, if the political, social and religious parties show a real and honest zeal of service to the Ummat, they must include this project in their agenda.

The political parties who win the election on the slogan of “Ghareebi Hatao (Remove poverty)“, can be persuaded to work in this neglected sector.