Response to State Times Article

Response to a State Times Article, reproduced again on a Blog

"Statetimes, a Jammu daily reports on the selection list of CET for MBBS, BDS, BVSc this year, “Take, for example, the share of non-Muslims in MBBS select list. Out of total of 290 seats, 93 have gone to the non-Muslims, including Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists and Kashmiri Hindus. That means their share is a paltry 32 per cent. As for their share in open merit, it is 33 out of a total of 125 seats.In other words, it is just 12.5 per cent. Should it be taken to mean that non-Muslim aspirants are simply incompetent? They are not. In fact, they are exceptionally bright. Paradoxically, the share of the Muslim youth of Jammu is even less.Their number is not more than 25 and most of them have got selected under certain categories, including those belonging to the Scheduled Tribe. As for the selection of the Muslim aspirants under the open category, it is almost zero. The plight of the Muslim youth belonging to Kargil is no different. They have got only a couple of seats and that too under one category or the other”.
Discriminatory attitude is being extended at every step despite the growing resentment of the Jammu region. Any listeners?"

Response:

Of the combined population of two regions, Jammu region accounts for 31% and Kashmir for 69%. So, any person with basic logic and reasoning would agree that on an equitable basis, the distribution of seats should be in the ratio of 31:69 and not 50:50.
93 out of 290 seats means 32% which is 3 seats more than the fair value of 90 (31% of 290)
Again, in open merit 33 out of 125 seats is 26.4 % and not 12.5% (Mind your numbers!!!), which are again only a few seats less than the fair value of 38.

“Paradoxically, the share of the Muslim youth of Jammu is even less.”
It is no paradox, it is a logical representation of numbers. Since the population of muslims in Jammu is less, their number in the list is also less.
For seeing the real paradox, please click here