Author: Our Staff Reporter
Publication: The Hindu
Date: June 21, 2004
URL: http://www.hindu.com/2004/06/21/stories/2004062106730400.htm
The Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana
(SNDP) Yogam general secretary, Vellappally Natesan, today said the minority
communities benefited most from the introduction of self-financing educational
institutions.
Speaking after distributing prizes
to top scorers in the SSLC examination, instituted by the SNDP Thrissur
Taluk Union, at the Mundassery Smaraka Hall here, Mr. Natesan said this
was done mainly by the consolidation of economical and political powers
of the two minority communities.
Mr. Natesan claimed that 34 of the
38 nursing colleges allotted in the self-financing stream had gone to a
particular community. He pointed out that the Ezhava community had not
been allotted even one medical college.
He said the Ezhava community at
large was still educationally backward, as the community had not got any
considerable number of colleges after the days of the late R. Sankar, during
whose tenure the community had received sanction to open 13 colleges all
over the State. The doors of higher education were still shut to the community,
he said.
He alleged that attempts by the
minority communities to organise themselves had provoked the majority communities
into organising themselves, resulting in vitiating communal amity.
Mr. Natesan alleged that double
standard existed even with regard to the reference to caste by the minority
and majority communities.
While the reference to caste and
religion by the minority communities was tolerated, any such reference
by the majority communities would be branded as casteism, he said.
