lucknow as part of a series of steps aimed at muslim outreach the yogi adityanath government now plans to organise job fairs in the minoritydominated regions of the stateaccording to sources the departments of minority welfare and labour employment will jointly organise the fairs expected after diwali sources in the labour department said that the fairs are proposed to be organised close to the minority institutions and other centres of islamic learning instructions have been issued to all districts to identify such areas where the job fairs could be organised said an officialthe first such fair is scheduled to be organised in the lucknow division comprising lucknow hardoi lakhimpur kheri raebareli sitapur and unnao district gradually the fairs would be organised in other 17 divisions of the state officials saidaccounting for around 19 of the population the muslim community lags far behind in many socioreligious categories srcs such as education economic employment housing landholding access to credit and other development indicators in fact in government jobs muslims constitute 1008 of the obc castes researches showin january the hyderabadbased think tank centre for development policy and practice cdpp came up with a research paper development of muslims in uttar pradesh policy implications pointing out that 365 of muslims in up are employed in agriculture 262 in manufacturing 103 in construction and 27 in servicessources said that the idea to organise job fairs in muslimdominated areas was mooted by the department of minority welfare a few days ago a series of meetings with the department of labour were held but the plan could not take off because of the ongoing festive season the plan is now ready to be implemented as soon as possible said an officialthe saffron party has announced a series of steps aimed at wooing the minority in the runup to the 2014 lok sabha polls the bjp primarily seeks to make deep inroads into pasmanda community which reportedly accounts for around 70 of the muslim population and are socially and economically backward this came after pm narendra modis pitch to reach out to the pasmandas for elevating their social status through implementation of various public welfare schemespolitical commentators said that the bjp seeks to allay the apprehensions of the minority community which felt cornered after the yogi government decided to conduct a survey of the nonregistered madrassas party insiders say that while 30 of the beneficiaries of various government schemes were muslims the bjp received only 8 votes from the community during state elections