New Delhi, Nov 30: Following are the recommendations
of the Rajindar Sachar committee report on the social,
economic and educational status of the Muslim community in the
country tabled in Parliament today:
-Setting up an Equal Opportunity Commission (EOC) to
look into grievances of deprived groups like minorities.
-Working out nomination procedure to increase
participation of minorities in public bodies.
-Providing legal mechanism to address complaints of
discrimination against minorities in matters of employment,
housing, schooling and obtaining bank loans.
-Establishing a delimitation procedure that does not
reserve constituencies with high minority population for SCs.
-Initiating and institutionalising a process of
evaluating contents of textbooks to purge them of explicit and
implicit material that may impart inappropriate social
values, especially religious intolerance.
-Creating a national data bank where all relevant data
for various socio-religious categories are maintained.
-Setting up an autonomous assessment and monitoring
authority to evaluate the extent of development benefits
which accrue to different socio-religious categories through
various programmes.
-Encouraging the University Grants Commission to evolve
a system where part of allocation to colleges and universities
is linked to diversity in student population.
-Facilitating admissions to the most backward amongst all
socio-religious categories in regular universities and
autonomous colleges and evolving alternate admission criteria
Designating Arzals Muslim group as most backward classes
as they need multifarious measures, including reservation.
-Providing Hindu-OBC-type attention to Ajlaf Muslim
group.
-Providing financial and other support to initiatives
built around occupations where Muslims are concentrated and
that have growth potential.
-Increasing employment share of Muslims, particularly
where there is great deal of public dealing.
-Working out mechanisms to link madrassas with higher
secondary school board.
-Recognising degrees from madrassas for eligibility in
defence, civil and banking examinations.
-Providing hostel facilities at reasonable costs for
students from minorities on a priority basis.
-Promoting and enhancing access to Muslims in priority
sector advances.
-Including in teacher training components that introduce
importance of diversity and plurality and sensitising teachers
towards needs and aspirations of Muslims and other
marginalised communities.
-Opening high quality Urdu medium schools wherever they
are in demand and ensuring high quality textbooks for
students in the Urdu language.
-Drawing Muslims on relevant interview panels and boards.
-Improving participation and share of minorities,
particularly Muslims, in business of regular commercial
banks.
-Setting up a national Wakf Development Corporation with
a revolving corpus fund of Rs 500 crore.
-Creating new cadre to deal with specific Wakf affairs.
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