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Mishra Commission
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Ranganath Mishra Commission is an enquiry commission assigned by Government of India to study and find solution for the minority status of India. The report was conducted by National Commission for Religious and Linguistic Minorities.[1]. The report focused on the issue of The report was submitted to the government on 21 May 2007.[2]
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- 15% of jobs in government services and seats in educational institutions for minorities
- reserves 8.4% out of existing OBC quota of 27% for minorities
- SC reservation to Dalit converts[1]
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Misra Commission Report
A Brief
PART - 1
INTRODUCTION
A) Setting up of the Commission
B) Functioning of the Commission
C) Representation of parties
D) Collection of facts
E) Interference with the working
F) Camera proceedings
G) Role of the Citizens Justice Committee
H) Examination of persons other than deponents
DELHI
2. (a) General
2. (b) Incidents
2. (c) Consideration of affidavits
2. (d) Role played by the Railway Administration
2. (e) Deaths in Delhi
3. An assessment of the situation
4. Damage to Gurudwaras and Educational Institutions at Delhi
5. Role of the Police
6. Action against others
7. Delay in calling in the Army
8. Allegation against D.T.C.
KANPUR
9. Incidents
10. Consideration of some affidavits
11. Assessment of Events
BOKARO & CHAS
12. Incidents and Consideration of Affidavits
13. A few Notable Instances
14. Prosecuting the Offender
15. Compensation to Riot Victims
16. Commission takes some steps for Rehabilitation
PART - 2
17. More Manpower and Reorganisation
18. Voluntary Social Agencies
19. Education
20. Evolving a Common Code of Conduct
21. Mass Media
ABBREVIATIONS
1. AIIMS -All India Institute of Medical Sciences
2. BRVRC -Bokaro Riot Victims Rehabilitation Committee
3. CCPH -Citizens' Committee for Pace & Harmony
4. CJC -Citizens' Justice Committee
5. DSGMC -Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee
6. KRICC -Kanpur Riots Inquiry Coordination Committee
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Sachar panel recommends Equal Opportunity Commission
The underprivileged needs to be given better opportunities, says Sachar Commission.
BY A CORRESPONDENT
November 30, 2006
Constituting an Equal Opportunity Commission to look into the grievances of the deprived groups is among the recommendations that the Justice Rajinder Sachar Committee has put forward to the government. The Sachar Committee report on the social, economic and educational status of Muslims in the country that was tabled in the Lok Sabha by Minority Affairs Minister A R Antulay on Thursday.
Reports said that controversial Committee's report has urged the government to enunciate policies to deal with the deprivations of Muslims and which would sharply focus on inclusive development and mainstreaming of the community.
The panel report has also found that the deprived communities lag on all socio-economic indices such as education, health, employment, credit, infrastructure and public programmes. On the condition of Muslims, the seven-member committee has found that the Muslims have had to bear the brunt of the so-called competitive forces unleashed by liberalization, despite the economic boom that has taken the country by storm.
According to the report, India is going through a high growth phase and this was the time to help the underprivileged to utilize new opportunities through skill development and education. It added that the lack of access to critical infrastructural facilities is a matter of concern for the Muslims.
The committee report also advocates that a group of Muslims with traditional occupations as that of SCs be designated as Most Backward Classes (MBCs) and provided sops including reservation.
On the educational deprivation faced by Muslims, the panel notes that from lower levels of enrolment to a sharp decline in participation in higher levels of education, the situation of Indian Muslims is indeed very depressing compared to other socio-religious groups.
It has also recommended to the University Grants Commission that it should evolve a system where part of the allocation to colleges and universities is linked to the diversity in the student population.
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Indian National Commission for Religious and Linguistic Minorities has recommended a 10 percent quota for Muslims in all government jobs. The commission's report, headed by former chief justice Rangnath Mishra, was tabled by Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid in the Lok Sabha on Friday. The commission said a 10 percent quota should be reserved for Muslims and five percent for other minorities in central and state government jobs in all cadre and grades. The other recommendations include delinking of Scheduled Caste (SC) status from religion and abrogation of the 1950 Scheduled Caste Order, which "still excludes Muslims, Christians, Jains and Parsis from the SC net". The order originally restricted the SC status to Hindus only but was later opened to Buddhists and Sikhs
Better Abolish Reservation since it has ceased to be the Constitutional Safeguard for Equal Opportunity for the Deprived Communities and is being UTILISED as the best Machinery to mobilise CAPTIVE Vote bank!
Better Abolish RESERVATION just because it has been made IRRELEVANT thanks to Neoliberal Economic reforms and the Communities having RESERVATION do land themselves in intense ALIENATION as they fail to take streets in RESISTANCE!
Better Abolish Reservation for the DIVERSION of AMBEDKARITE Ideology in Complete Casteology meant and limited in Power Politics which has nothing to do with the upliftment and empowerment of the communities which enjoy reservation!
Abolish RESERVATION just because the Indigenous Production System and Livelihood have been Eliminated and there is no scope for job or recruitment in Government sector in the given Conditions of IT Priority, SERVICE and Realty sector BOOM, Disinvestment and Divestment.
Reservation has to be ABOLISHED as it has undermined the deprived communities most from within developing CREAMY Layer which NEVER returns to ROOTS and finds SALVATION in upgrading itself with Privileged Job, status and inter caste marriage and Never Identifies itself with the Original Identity.
Reservation should be ABOLISHED as it has been limited just in Political Reservation to uplift the unworthy, unfaithful, opportunist, Mediocre TRAITORS to use their own communities in the best interest of the Ruling Hegemony.
Abolish Reservation because it has become the best means of Political ENSLAVEMENT.
I have been writing since very long that Incomplete and unjustified Reservation is more dangerous than Manusmriti itself. Santhal in Assam have not to get RESERVATION. Bheel Community in Rajsthan does not have Reservation. Meena and Gurjars are fighting amongst themselves as the Meena community getting the most of the RESERVATION would Never Share the ST status with Gurjars.
Our people, the SC Communities ejected from their Homeland in East Bengal and landed in West Bengal as Partition victims only to be ousted of Bengali Geopolitics and History to ensure winning Vote bank Equation and favourable Demography for the Brahaminical Hegemony and have been scattered all over the Country would NEVER get Reservation as they got and lost in some states and Never got in other states during last six decades. In Uttar Pradesh ND Tiwari and KC pant used our People as Captive Vote bank and Refugee leaders including my father Pulin Babu followed them believing they would include our Communities in SC. Mulayam Singh Yadav recommended RESERVATION for the Refugees in UTTAR Pradesh and Mayawati withdrew it just because her Community Balmiki is not ready to share RESERVATION with Bengalies. In Chhattish Garh, Ajit Jogi recommended but Raman Singh is not ready to pursue. In Uttarakhand our People do have Reservation in Educational institutions as Students but they are deprived of JOB and political reservation.
Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar succeeded to have the Constitutional safeguard for the deprived Depressed Communities with the Vision that the persons enjoying RESERVATION would REPRESENT their respective Communities and it had not to be the means of Livelihood or Status. It NEVER happened and Reservation ended in Status and Livelihood. Those who get RESERVATION are not ready to pay back any damn thing to their Communities.
RESERVATION Must Be ABOLISHED as it has DUMPED AMBEDKARITE Ideology consisting of Alternative Economics of Human and Resource Manage meant, Revenue management and Policy making, Trade Union Movement, Empowerment, Internal Democracy, Rights of the Working Class, rights for Women and Children . The Post Ambedkarite subaltern Movement are never concerned with these Vital Element of Ambedkarite Ideology and they speak to annihilate Caste but use their Caste Identity for their Benefit only. As the Marxists speak for Class Struggle for the Dictatorship of the the Proletariat and do everything to destroy the Proletariat. The Ambedkarites do everything to destroy their own Communities.
RESERVATION has to be ABOLISHED since the POLITICAL leadership emerged thanks to RESERVATION have DAMAGED the Deprived Communities more that the ZIONIST Brahaminical Hegemony.
Finally RESERVATION has to be ABOLISHED as it has turned to be the BEST PLOY to pit us against each other leading to Hatred, Violence and Disorganisation all for Political Gains only!
The government-appointed Justice Rangnath Commission has recommended 10% reservation for Muslims and 5% for other minorities in government jobs and favoured Scheduled Caste status for Dalits in all religions.I am AFRAID that it has struck the Pandora`s Box once again as it happened while VP Singh decided to implement Mandal Commision Report and the Hegemony was Successful to mobilise the nationwide Anti Reservation Movement.
I am afraid that the report is going to strengthen the Hindutva Forces once again to divide the country Vertically and the Communities already getting all the benefits of Reservation and Quota would NEVER allow any share whatsoever. It would further create more troubles for the Muslims who have been targeted to Hatred and Persecution INFINITE since the Partition as the Brahaminical hegemony succeeded to Manipulate the History and enslaved the Muslim Community as BONDED Vote Bank.
I am afraid that the report is meant to Consolidate Congress Vote Bank snatching it from Mayawati, Lalu Prasad and Mulayam Singh Yadav for which these personalities have lost no time to welcome it lest they would lost the meat within their Vote bank. In Return, I must aware, the Muslims would get NOTHING as they got NOTHING since the Partition and they dared not to demand their just share for the imposed guilt of Partition thrust upon them.
Holding that backwardness of minorities emanates from lack of education, Rangnath Mishra Commission has recommended 15 per cent reservation for such communities, including 10 per cent for Muslims, in all general educational institutions.
Without Empowerment and Internal Democracy in conditions of Sustained Manusmriti Apartheid Rule in a Brahaminical Zionist Rotten system fascist Feudal elements do prove Die Hard. Let me Explain.
For Example, With Sushma Swaraj becoming the Leader of the Opposition, three of the top slots have gone to women leaders for the first time
Tell me, would it change anything in the life of Indian Women and children. The Women getting Job and status belong to a solid backgroun otherwise Indian women and their Children live the most Miserable life.
In the Indian Rural world, Women achieved status in Panchayats, Local Bodies are best represented by their Male family members and nobody recognises them. Their Husbands do enjoy the status and decision making. Only daughres, wives or widows of Prominent Personalities get the Ticket or they have to ensure the Ticket with Extra curricular activities!
Meira Kumar is the Speaker, the first woman leader to adorn the high office while Sonia Gandhi is the chairperson of Congress Parliamentary Party.
Incidentally, the current Lok Sabha has the highest number of women members -- 59 -- since Independence. Of them, 23 belong to Congress followed by 13 of the BJP. There are four woman members each from the Trinamool Congress, Samajwadi Party and the BSP.
Sonia Gandhi was the first woman to become the Leader of the Opposition in 1999. Interestingly at that time, she defeated Swaraj in the Bellary constituency of Karnataka for her maiden entry to the Lok Sabha.
Swaraj's elevation to the top job could lead to greater coordination in the opposition ranks given the fact that she had a good rapport with leaders like Lalu Prasad and Mulayam Singh Yadav, having been a part of the Janata Party earlier.
The National Commission for Religious and Linguistic Minorities, headed by the former chief justice of India, has "strongly" recommended that there should be a law earmarking 15 per cent seats for the minorities.
"As by the force of judicial decisions the minority intake in minority educational institutions has, in the interest of national integration, been restricted to about 50 per cent, thus virtually earmarking 50 per cent or so for the majority community. We strongly recommend that, by the same analogy and for the same purpose, at least 15 per cent seats in all non-minority educational institutions should be earmarked by law for the minorities," the report of the commission tabled in the Lok Sabha on Friday said.
Giving the break up within the recommended 15 per cent of earmarked seats, the commission said 10 per cent should go to the Muslims while five per cent should be allotted to other minorities.
To ameliorate their economic condition, the Commission has suggested earmarking of 15 per cent of the total share for minorities in all government schemes.
The report of the National Commission for Religious and Linguistic Minorities, headed by former Chief Justice of India Rangnath Mishra, was tabled by Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid in the Lok Sabha lastday.
Among a host of recommendations, the Commission recommends delinking of Scheduled Caste status from religion and abrogation of the 1950 Scheduled Caste Order which "still excludes Muslims, Christians, Jains and Parsis from the SC net."
The Order originally restricted the SC status to Hindus only but was later opened it to Buddhists and Sikhs.
With regard to quota, the Commission says that 10% should be reserved for Muslims and five% for other minorities in central and state government jobs in all cadre and grades.
It added that in case of non-availability of Muslims to fill the 10% earmarked seats, these may be made available to other minorities but in "no case" shall any seat within the recommended 15% shall be given to anybody from the majority community.
Member Secretary of the Commission Asha Das has, however, given a note of dissent on the the Commission's recommendation for conferment of SC status on Dalit converts to Christianity and Islam saying there was "no justification" for it.
Besides, she has said that as Dalit converts to Christianity/Islam do not qualify for inclusion as SCs, they should continue to form part of OBCs and avail facilities and reservations given to the OBCs until a comprehensive list of Socially and Educationally Backward (SEB) is prepared.
The Commission has, however, rejected the contentions made by Das in the dissent note and said "(we) firmly stand by every word of the recommendations, we have made under this term of reference."
The Commission also suggested an alternative route for reservation to minorities if there is "insurmountable difficulty" in implementing the recommendation for 15 reservation.
In this regard it said since minorities constitute 8.4 percent of the total OBC population according to the Mandal Commission report so in the 27 percent OBC quota, an 8.4 percent sub quota should be earmarked for minorities.
The internal break-up should be 6 percent for the Muslims, commensurate with their 73 percent share in the total minority population at the national level and 2.4 percent for other minorities.
Besides it has recommended that the reservation now extended to the Scheduled Tribes, which is a religion neutral class, should be carefully examined to assess the extent of minority presence in it and take remedial measures.
The Commission noted that the minorities especially the Muslims are very much under-represented and sometimes wholly unrepresented in government jobs.
The report of the National Commission for Religious and Linguistic Minorities headed by former Chief Justice of India Rangnath Mishra, is considered a step ahead of Sachchar Committee report that went into the backwardness of minorities mainly Muslims.
The Commission, was notified in October 2004 and began functioning in 2005. Two years later, it submitted its report to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in May 2007.
There were consistent demands from other parties except BJP for tabling the report in Parliament and implement its recommendations. A number of MPs from different parties had also demanded that the government should come out with Action Taken Report (ATR) on it.
However, Khurshid had made it clear that ATR was not mandatory as the particular Commission was not constituted under the Commission of Enquiry Act.
The Terms of Condition (ToR) for the Commission were for identifying socially, economically and backward classes among religious and linguistic minorities and suggesting measures of welfare for minorities including reservation.
The Rangnath Mishra Commission report recommending 10 per cent reservation for Muslims in government jobs, has been welcomed by RJD and LJP but came under attack from VHP which dubbed it as "Jehadi conspiracy".
In a statement, the LJP said "since minorities, especially Muslims are very much under-represented and sometimes wholly unrepresented in government employment, we recommend that 15 per cent of posts in all cadres and grades under Central and state governments should be earmarked for them..."
It also said at least 15 per cent in all non-minorities educational institutes should be earmarked by law for minorities in the break-up, adding the same pattern should be followed for them in all government schemes like NREGA.
The Ram Vilas Paswan-led party also demanded that action taken report along with a time-bound implementation schedule of the recommendations should be made public at the earliest.
While welcoming the recommendations, RJD chief Lalu Prasad threatened an agitation if government fails to implement them.
Prasad said he had raised demand for tabling the report in Parliament umpteen times when he was the Railway Minister in UPA-I. "We were the ones, who had got the recommendations of Mandal Commission implemented. Minorities have negligible presence in government jobs since Independence. Hence, the recommendations must be implemented," Prasad said.
VHP secretary general Pravin Togadiya described 10 per cent reservation for Muslims and five per cent to other minority groups as "anti-Constitutional and nation destructing Jehadi conspiracy by those who refuse to control population quoting Islam. Hindu SCs and others who accept family planning, are cheated by this".
Economic Times reports:
THE Ranganath Commission has recommended Scheduled Caste status to Dalit Hindu converts to Christianity and Islam. It has also
The commission has recommended delinking of Scheduled Caste status from religion and abrogation of the 1950 Scheduled Caste Order which "still excludes Muslims, Christians, Jains and Parsis from the Supreme Court net." The order originally restricted Scheduled Caste status to Hindus alone, but was later opened to Buddhists and Sikhs. "We recommend that all those social and vocational groups among minorities who but for their religious identity would have been covered by the present net of Scheduled Castes should be unquestionably treated as socially backward, irrespective of whether the religion of those other communities recognise the caste system or not," the Commission said.
It also said that "those groups among minorities whose counterparts in the majority community are at present covered by the net of Scheduled Tribes should also be included in that net. More specifically, members of the minority communities living in any tribal area from pre-independence days should be so included irrespective of their ethnic characteristics," the commission recommended.
The commission, which felt that education is a crucial factor for development and enhancement of social and economic status, told the government that "the focus has to be not only for extending the education facilities for all, but also ensuring the quality of education."
The commission said that 10% seats should be reserved for Muslims and 5% for other minorities in Central and state government jobs in all cadre and grades. It added that in case of non-availability of Muslims to fill the 10% earmarked seats, these may be made available to other minorities, but in "no case" shall any seat within the recommended 15% shall be given to anybody from the majority community.
Member Secretary of the Commission Asha Das has given a note of dissent on the the Commission's recommendation for conferment of SC status on Dalit converts to Christianity and Islam saying there was "no justification" for it.
Besides, she has said that as Dalit converts to Christianity/Islam do not qualify for inclusion as SCs, they should continue to form part of OBCs and avail facilities and reservations given to the OBCs until a comprehensive list of Socially and Educationally Backward (SEB) is prepared. The Commission, however, rejected the contentions made by Das in the dissent note and said: "We firmly stand by every word of the recommendations, we have made under this term of reference."
The government has not placed an Action Taken Report on the recommendation in Parliament. In any case, the government is not bound to come out with an ATR as the panel was not set up under the Commissions of Inquiry Act.
The recommendation of 'religion-based' quota not just goes against the Constitution, it could also give a handle to the Opposition to beat the government with. There is constitutional restriction on Christian and Muslim Dalits being allowed access to reservation.
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Guj Assembly: Cong walkout on Rangnath Mishra report
Opposition Congress today staged a walkout from the state Assembly on the issue of discussion on Rangnath Mishra Commission's recommendations.
The commission favours reservation to minorities and giving SC status to the converted Dalits.
Gujarat minister for social justice and empowerment Fakirbhai Patel introduced a resolution in the Assembly, asking the Central government to not implement the recommendations which will create social divisions in the country.
However, leader of opposition Shaktisinh Gohil demanded that since the matter is sub judice and the report has just been placed before Parliament, it could not be discussed in the state Assembly.
But the speaker, Ashok Bhatt, allowed discussion on the issue, which promoted the Opposition to walkout on the last day of the three-day brief Assembly session.
Rangnath Commission report unconstitutional: VHP
Criticising Justice Rangnath Mishra Commission report recommending 10 per cent reservation for Muslims, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) today said religion based reservation is unconstitutional.
The report of the National Commission for Religious and Linguistic Minorities headed by former CJI Ranganath Mishra was tabled by Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid in the Lok Sabha today.
The Commission has recommended 10 per cent reservation for Muslims and five per cent for other minorities in government jobs.
"VHP rejects in toto the Rangnath commission report because it is unconstitutional, anti-national and anti-Hindu," VHP international general secretary Praveen Togadia told media persons here.
"Khurshid who had recently called salaries of CEOs as vulgar, has by tabling the Rangnath Commission report shown the country his 'constitutional vulgarity'," he said.
Dramatic turn of events at Copenhagen in the last few hours
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama walking uninvited into a meeting of Prime Ministers of China and India
With hopes fading of a summit draft, infact, it was a dramatic turn of events last night, which led to a breakthrough when all seemed lost.
Several key world leaders, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had to turn back from the airport to huddle straight into a meeting at the Bella Centre in what was the last ditch effort by Obama to hammer a deal.
Obama was keen for a one-to-one meeting with Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao.
It was no less a surprise for Obama, himself, and the White House team in Copenhagen when he went into a late afternoon bi-lateral meeting with Wen to find that three other world leaders were already there in the room - Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, Brazilian President, Lula da Silva and South African President, Jacob Zuma.
Later, US officials said "The only surprise we had, in all our history was...that in that room wasn't just the Chinese having a meeting...but all four countries that we had been trying to arrange meetings with where indeed all in the same room...The President's viewpoint is, I wanted to see them all and now is our chance."
Obama and his team appeared to be taken aback at this as the US President had scheduled a last minute bilateral meeting with the Chinese Premier, followed by a joint meeting with the Indian, Brazilian and South African leaders. But, it appeared that the Chinese, Brazilian, Indian and South African leaders wanted to meet him together, rather than in separate sessions.
Apprehending that the Copenhagen Summit has almost headed towards a dead end, Obama postponed his scheduled departure for the US and told his advance team that he wanted to meet the Chinese premier separately; followed by a joint meeting with the India, Brazilian and South African leaders.
The Chinese team, initially reluctant, told the White House officials that most of the team were already on the airport, while Wen was in his hotel, getting ready to leave. When they called Indian team, they were told that Singh is at the airport. This happened around 4 pm local time.
"I think they thought the meeting was done. I think they thought there wasn't anything left to stay for, in all honesty," a senior administration official said. And when they called Brazil, White House was told no meeting without India, as they knew that Singh was on his way back.
Zuma agreed as he did not had the latest information about Singh.
"Brazil tells us that they don't know if they can come because they want the Indians to come. The Indians were at the airport. Zuma is under the impression that everybody is coming," a senior Administration official said. And when Zuma came to know that Singh was at the airport, he also backed out of the meeting.
India, China triumph: No legally binding deal for now
President Barack Obama said the United States, China and several other countries reached an ``unprecedented breakthrough'' Friday to
The agreement, which also includes the developing nations of India, South Africa and Brazil, requires each country to list the actions they will take to cut global warming pollution by specific amounts, a senior Obama administration official said. The official described the deal on the condition of anonymity because specific details had not been announced.
The deal reiterates a goal that eight leading industrialized nations set earlier this year on long-term emission cuts and provides a mechanism to help poor countries prepare for climate change, the official said.
But it falls far short of committing any nation to emissions reductions beyond a general acknowledgment that the effort should contain global temperatures along the lines agreed to by the leading economic nations in July.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the talks were extremely difficult and: ``I must also say that I view the outcome with mixed feelings.''
A European Union news conference to announce the EU reaction was postponed and an official said an overall agreement involving those nations not included in the deal that Obama announced was still being negotiated.
Obama suggested that the five-nation agreement would be adopted by the larger summit in its closing hours.
``I am leaving before the final vote,'' he said. ``We feel confident we are moving in the direction of a final accord.''
If the countries had waited to reach a full, binding agreement, ``then we wouldn't make any progress,'' Obama said. In that case, he said, ``there might be such frustration and cynicism that rather than taking one step forward we ended up taking two steps back.''
Obama spent the final scheduled day of the climate talks huddling with world leaders, including Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, in a bid to salvage the global warming accord amid deep divisions between rich and poor nations.
In announcing the five-nation deal, Obama said getting a legally binding treaty ``is going to be very hard, and it's going to take some time.''
``We have come a long way, but we have much further to go,'' he said.
The president said there was a ``fundamental deadlock in perspectives'' between big, industrially developed countries like the United States and poorer, though sometimes large, developing nations. Still he said this week's efforts ``will help us begin to meet our responsibilities to leave our children and grandchildren a cleaner planet.''
The deal as described by Obama reflects some progress helping poor nations cope with climate change and getting China to disclose its actions to address the warming problem.
He said the nations of the world will have to take more aggressive steps to combat global warming. The first step, he said, is to build trust between developed and developing countries.
The five-nation agreement includes a method for verifying reductions of heat-trapping gases, the official said. That was a key demand by Washington of China, which has resisted international efforts to monitor its actions.
'Income must be lone criteria for quota' Special Correspondent
| Misra panel recommends extension of reservation to all religious minorities |
Commission suggests that Scheduled Caste status be delinked from religion
It calls for an overhaul of the entire reservation policy
NEW DELHI: The National Commission for Religious and Linguistic Minorities has recommended the extension of quota to all religious minorities — including Hindus where they are in a minority — while advocating an overhaul of the reservation policy to make income the lone criteria for affirmative action.
In its report tabled in Parliament on Friday, the Commission said Scheduled Caste (SC) status should be delinked from religion to make the SC net fully religion-neutral like that of the Scheduled Tribes (STs).
For this, Para 3 of the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order 1950 — which originally restricted the SC net to Hindus and later opened it to Sikhs and Buddhists — should be wholly deleted by appropriate action.
UnscheduledThough it was not scheduled to be tabled on Friday, the report of the Commission headed by former Chief Justice of India Ranganath Misra was hurriedly presented to the House by Union Minister of State for Minority Affairs Salman Khursheed after the decision to adjourn the Lok Sabha sine die was taken in the morning following the first adjournment.
Calling for an overhaul of the entire reservation policy, the Commission, which submitted its report to the Government on May 10, 2007, has stressed the need to limit the benefits of reservation to the socially and economically backward.
Educational institutionsFor this purpose, the Commission has suggested that the Below Poverty Line (BPL) lists prepared on the basis of social/educational and economic criteria should be used, as they are scientifically prepared and revised periodically.
"BPL lists should, therefore, be made eligible for grant of reservation without distinction on caste, class, group or religion basis."
Working on the premise that socio-economic backwardness emanates from educational backwardness, the Commission has recommended that at least 15 per cent of the seats in all non-minority educational institutions should be earmarked by law for minorities.
Of the 15 per cent, the largest chunk of 10 per cent should go to Muslims — commensurate with their 73 per cent share of the total minority population in the country — and the remaining five per cent to other minorities.
While making this recommendation, the Commission has followed the judicial decisions mandating that only 50 per cent of the seats in a minority institution can be set aside for minorities in the interest of national integration. The 15 per cent reservation for minorities in non-minority institutions is justified by the Commission "by the same analogy and for the same purpose."
In defining religious minorities, the Commission has gone beyond the scope of the definition used by the National Commission for Minorities.
http://www.hindu.com/2009/12/19/stories/2009121958270100.htm
Ranganath Mishra Commission recommendations
Submitted by kashif on Tue, 08/07/2007 - 02:02.Mishra Commission Recommends 15% Reservation for Muslims in Education & Employment
Also Recommends Inclusion of Muslim & Christian Dalits in SC List
The National Commission on Religious & Linguistic Minorities Leaded by Justice Ranganath Mishra former Chief Justice of India and Dr. Tahir Mahmood submitted its Report to the Prime Minister on 22 May, 2007 shall be formally released only after being established in the Parliament in the Monsoon Session relevant extracts of in terms of the Muslim Community an reported below. - Editor of Muslim India.
http://www.muslimindiamonthly.com/
Term of Reference No. 1 (original)
Criteria for identifying socially and economically backward classes among the religious and linguistic minorities
16.15. We recommend that in the matter criteria for identifying backward classes there should be absolutely no discrimination whatsoever between the majority community and the minorities; and, therefore, the criteria now applied for this purpose to the majority community — whatever that criteria may be – must be unreservedly applied also to all the minorities.
16.15. As a natural corollary to the aforesaid recommendation we recommend that all those classes, sections and groups among the minorities should be treated as backward whose counterparts in the majority community are regarded as backward under the present scheme of things.
16.18. To be more specific, we recommend that all those social and vocational groups among the minorities who but for their religious identity would have been covered by the present net of Scheduled Castes should be unquestionably treated as socially backward, irrespective of whether the religion of those other communities recognises the caste system or not.
16.19. We also recommend that those groups among the minorities whose counterparts in the majority community are at present covered by the net of Scheduled Tribes should also be included in that net; and also, more specifically, members of the minority communities living in any Tribal Area from pre-independence days should be so included irrespective of their ethnic characteristics.
Term of Reference No. II (original)
Measures of Welfare for Minorities including Reservation
General welfare measures
A. Educational measures
16.2.4 As the meaning and scope of Article 30 of the Constitution has become quite uncertain, complicated and diluted due to their varied and sometimes conflicting judicial interpretations, we recommend that a comprehensive law should be enacted without delay to detail all aspects of minorities, educational rights under that provision with a view to reinforcing its original dictates in letter and spirit.
16.2.5 The statute of the National Minority Educational Institute Commission should be amended to make it wide-based in its composition, powers, functions and responsibilities and to enable it to work as the watchdog for a meticulous enforcement of all aspects of minorities, educational rights under the Constitution.
16.2.6 As by the force of judicial decisions the minority intake in minority educational institutions has, in the interest of national integration, been restricted to about 50%, thus virtually earmarking the remaining 50% or so for the majority community – we strongly recommend that, by the same analogy and for the same purpose, at least 15% seats in all non-minority educational institutions should be earmarked by law for the minorities as follows:-
(a) The break up within the recommended 15% earmarked seats in institutions shall be 10% for the Muslims (commensurate with their 73% share of the former in the total minority population at the national level) and the remaining 5 % for the other minorities.
(b) Minor adjustments inter se can be made in the 15% earmarked seats. In the case of non-availability of Muslim candidates to fill 10% earmarked seats, the remaining vacancies may be given to the other minorities if their members are available over and above their share of 5%; but in no case shall any seat within the recommended 15% go to the majority community.
(c) As is the case with the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes at present those minority community candidates who can compete with others and secure admission on their own merit shall not be included in these 15% earmarked seats.
16.2.7 As regards the backward sections among all the minorities, we recommend that the concessions now available in terms of lower eligibility criteria for admission and lower rate of fee, now available to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, should be extended also to such sections among the minorities.
16.2.8 In respect of the Muslims – who are the largest minority at the national level with a country-wide presence and yet educationally the most backward of the religious communities – we recommend certain exclusive measures as follows:—
(i) Select institutions in the country like the Aligarh Muslim University and the Jamia Millia Islamia should be legally given a special responsibility to promote education at all levels to Muslim students by taking all possible steps for this purpose. At least one such institution should be selected for this purpose in each of those states and Union Territories which has a substantial Muslim population.
(v) In the funds to be distributed by the Maulana Azad Educational Foundation a suitable portion should be earmarked for the Muslims proportionate to their share in the total minority population. Out of this portion funds should be provided not only to the existing Muslim institutions but also for setting up new institutions from nursery to the highest level and for technical and vocational education anywhere in India but especially in the Muslim-concentration areas.
(vi) Anganwaris, Navoday Vidyalayas and other similar institutions should be opened under their respective schemes especially in each of the Muslim-concentration areas and Muslim families be given suitable incentives to send their children to such institutions.
16.2.9 As regards the linguistic minorities, we recommend the following measures:-
(a) The law relating to the Linguistic Minorities Commissioner should be amended so as to make this office responsible for ensuring full implementation of all the relevant Constitutional provisions for the benefit of each such minority in all the States and Union Territories.
(b) The three-language formula should be implemented everywhere in the country making it compulsory for the authorities to includes in it the mother-tongue of every child – including, especially, Urdu and Punjabi – and all necessary facilities, financial and logistic, should be provided by the State for education in accordance with this dispensation.
B. Economic measures
16.2.10 As many minorities groups specialize in certain household and small scale industries, we recommend that an effective mechanism should be adopted to work for the development and modernization of all such industries and for a proper training of artisans and workmen among the minorities – especially among the Muslims among whom such industries, artisans and workmen are in urgent need of developmental assistance.
16.2.11 As the largest minority of the country, the Muslims, as also some other minorities have a scant or weak presence in the agrarian sector, we recommend that special schemes should be formulated for the promotion and development of agriculture, agronomy and agricultural trade among them.
16.2.12 We further recommend that effective ways should be adopted to popularise and promote all the self-employment and income-generating schemes among the minorities and to encourage them to benefit form such schemes.
16.2.13 We recommend that the rules, regulations and processes of the National Minorities Development and Finance Corporation be overhauled on a priority basis – in the light of the recent report recently submitted by the NMDF Review Committee and in consultation with the National Commission for Minorities – with a view to making it more efficient, effective and far-reaching among the minorities.
16.2.14 We further recommend that a 15% share be earmarked for the minorities – with a break-up of 10% for the Muslim (commensurate with their 73% share of the former in the total minority population at the national level) – and 5% for the other minorities in all government schemes like Rural Employment Generation Programme, Prime Minister's Rozgar Yojna, Grameen Rozgar Yojna, etc.
Reservation
16.2.15 Since the minorities – especially the Muslims – are very much under-represented, and sometimes wholly unrepresented, in government employment, we recommend that they should be regarded as backward in this respect within the meaning of that term as used in Article 16 (4) of the Constitution – notably without qualifying the word 'backward' with the words "socially and educationally" – and that 15% of posts in all cadres and grades under the Central and State Governments should be earmarked for them as follows:-
(a) The break up within the recommended 15% shall be 10% for the Muslims (commensurate with their 73% share of the former in the total minority population at the national level) and the remaining 5% for the other minorities.
(b) Minor adjustment inter se can be made within the 15% earmarked seats. In the case of non-availability of Muslims to fill 10% earmarked seats, the remaining vacancies may be given to other minorities if their members are available over and above their share of 5%; but in no case shall any seat within the recommended 15% go to the majority community.
16.2.16 Should there be some insurmountable difficulty in implementing this recommendation, as an alternative we recommend that since according to the Mandal Commission Report the minorities constitute 8.4% of the total OBC population, in the 27% OBC quota an 8.4% sub-quota should be earmarked for the minorities with an internal break-up of 6% for the Muslims (commensurate with their 73% share in the total minority population at the national level) and 2.4% for the other minorities with minor adjustment inter se in accordance with population of various minorities in various States & UTs.
16.2.17 We further recommend that the reservation now extended to the Scheduled Tribes, which is a religion-neutral class, should be carefully examined to assess the extent of minority presence in it and remedial measures should be initiated to correct the imbalance if any.
16.2.18 We recommend that the judicial reservation recently expressed in several case about the continued inclusion of the creamy layer in various classes enjoying reservation, inclusive of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, should be seriously considered for acceptance as a State policy.
Additional Term of Reference
Para 3 of the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order 1950.
16.3.4 We recommend that Para 3 of the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order 1950 – which originally restricted the Scheduled Caste net to the Hindus and later opened it to Sikhs and Buddhists, thus still excluding from its purview the Muslims, Christians, Jains and Parsis, etc. – should be wholly deleted by appropriate action so as to completely de-link Scheduled Caste status from religion and make the Scheduled Castes net fully religion-neutral like that of the Scheduled Tribes.
16.3.5 We further recommend that all those groups and classes among the Muslims and Christians, etc. whose counterparts among the Hindus, Sikhs or Buddhists, are included in the Central or State Scheduled Castes lists should also be covered by the Scheduled Caste net. If any such group or class among the Muslims and Christians, etc. is now included in an OBC list, it should be deleted from there while transferring it to the Scheduled Castes.
16.3.6 We further recommend that as the Constitution of India guarantees freedom of conscience and religious freedom as a Fundamental Right, once a person has been included in a Scheduled Caste list a willful change of religion on his part should not effect adversely his or her Scheduled Caste status.
Term of Reference No. III (original)
Modalities for implementing our recommendations
16.4.2 We recommend that all Central and State Acts, Statutory Rules and Regulations be suitably amended to implement those of our recommendations which in the opinion of the Ministry of Law and Justice or any another concerned authority may require such amendments.
16.4.3 We recommend the following legislative actions which in our opinion are required either for the implementation of some of our recommendations stated above or otherwise in the interest of the welfare of minorities:-
(a) Enactment of a detailed law to enforce the dictates Article 30 of the Constitution;
(b) Amendment of the National Commission for Backward Classes Act 1993;
(c) Amendment of the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order 1950 and the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order 1951 as also of the Central and State lists of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes;
(d) Review of the laws and rules, processes and procedures, relating to selection and notification of OBC at the Central and State levels:-
(e) Enactment of a law to clothe with statutory status and judicial enforceability the Prime Minister's 15-Point Programme for Minorities 1983 as modified in 2006;
(f) Amendment of the National Commission for Minorities Act 1992 and the National Commission for Educational Institutions Act 2004 so as to make it necessary for the government to appoint as the chairpersons and members of these bodies – through a Search Committee as in the case of the National Human Rights Commission – only reputed experts in the constitutional, legal, educational and economic matters relating to the minorities;
(g) Necessary amendments in the Wakf Act 1993 and all the Rules framed under its provisions;
(h) Review and necessary overhaul of the laws, rules, regulations, procedures and processes relating to the National Minorities Development and Finance Corporation and the Maulana Azad Education Foundation.
16.4.4 We recommend the following administrative measures which in our opinion are required either for the implementation of some or our recommendations or otherwise in the interest of the welfare of minorities:—
(a) Establishment of a Parliamentary Committee to consider and decide in the light of the Constitution policy matters relating to the minorities;
(b) Establishment of a National Committee consisting of Chairpersons of NHRC, NCW, NCBC, NCSC, NCM, NCMEI, NMDFC, CLM, Central Wakf Council and Maulana Azad Foundation along with nominated experts for monitoring the educational and economic development of he minorities;
(c) Creation of similar bodies in all the States/UTs for the same purpose and consisting of local top-level officials dealing with minority-related matters and independent experts;
(d) Establishment of a National-level Coordination Committee consisting of representatives of all the nationalized banks and other financial institutions to work under the RBI for monitoring credit flow to the minorities;
(e) Establishment of State Minorities Commission and Minority Welfare Departments in all those States and UTs where these do not exist as of now;
(f) Decentralization of all minority-related schemes, programmes and plans so as to create suitable district-level mechanisms for their day-to-day implementation;
(g) Revision of the list of Minority Concentration Districts as suggested by the NCM in 1990s and initiating special educational, economic and general welfare measures there through the local administration;
(h) Appointment of Minority Welfare Committees consisting of official and local experts in all districts of the country to act as the nodal agencies of NCM, State Minorities Commission and all other Central and State-level bodies working for the minorities.
To: Prime Minister of India and Chairperson, UPATo
Dr. Manmohan Singh
Honourable Prime Minister of India
South Block, Raisina Hill,
New Delhi,
India-110 001.
and
Mrs. Sonia Gandhi,
Chairperson, UPA,
10, Janpath,
New Delhi - 110 011
Tels. (011) 23014161, 23012656
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Sub: Tabulation of Justice Raganath Misra Commission Report - Reg.
We the undersigned demand the tabulation of Justice Raganath Misra Commission Report in the Parliament along with ATR. Discriminating the deprived either on the name of religion or on the name of technicalities is contradictory to the basic premise of the Indian Constitution. It was reported that 'Misra Commission' recommendations were addressing the problems identified by the Sachar Committee and addresses them fundamentally. We demand its tabulation.
Background:
1. The National Commission for Linguistic and Religious Minorities set up on March 15, 2005 popularly known as 'Ranganath Misra Commission submitted its report to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on 21st May.
2a. It was reported that commission has suggested that Para 3 of the Constitution (scheduled castes) order 1950 should be wholly deleted. This originally restricted the scheduled caste net to Hindus and later opened it to Sikhs and Buddhists, thus still excluding from its purview the Muslims, Christians, Jains and Parsis.
2b. Contending that caste is a totally social concept in India and does not have any religious basis, it is understood to have said that appropriate action should be taken so as to completely delink the scheduled caste status from religion and make the scheduled castes net fully religion-neutral like that of the scheduled tribes.
2c. The Commission is understood to have said that all those groups and classes among the Muslims and Christians whose counterparts among the Hindus, Sikhs or Buddhists are included in the Central or state scheduled castes list should also be covered by the scheduled castes net.
2d. If any such group or class among the Muslims and Christians etc is now included in an OBC list, it should also be deleted from there while transferring it to the Scheduled Castes. Placing the same persons in the scheduled caste list if they are Hindus, Sikhs or Buddhist but in the OBC list if they follow any other religion--which is the case in many states- -clearly amounts to religion-based discrimination, the report is understood to have said.
2e. The commission has further recommended that as the constitution guarantees freedom of conscience and religious freedom as a fundamental right, once a person has been included in a Scheduled Caste list a willful change of religion on his part should not affect adversely his or her scheduled caste status.
These recommendations have come as part of the additional terms of reference put forward by the commission.
3a. Indian social setup is based upon caste system from cradle to grave irrespective of the Religious faith, Caste considerations rule the roost. Dalits of all religions live in the same society ruled by caste values. A change of religion does not alter the socio-economic status of Dalits [Gandh ji says so in 'Harijan' December 26th, 1936 ]. The social stigma and stracism in society continue to haunt them wherever they go. A Dalit is considered untouchable, irrespective of the religious faith he or she may profess. As for atrocities, there is no discrimination between a Hindu Dalit and a Muslim / Christian Dalit.
3b. The Order violates the letter and spirit of articles Article 15 and Article 25 in fact it amounts to forced inducement or allurement by the state. The Order is a blatant violation and denial of human rights of a citizen under our Constitution as well as under Article 2, 3 and 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations, to which India is a signatory.
3c. This discrimination deprives Dalits of the right to seek civil protection and safeguards provided to all Dalits under the Protection of Civil Rights Act 1976, the Unsociability (Offences) Act 1955, and the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act 1989.
4. Supreme Court rulings :
A] "... to deny them [Dalit Muslims / Christians] the constitutional protection of reservation solely by reason of change of faith or religion is to endanger the very concept of Secularism and the raison d'etre of reservations." (Art. 271 of the Mandal Case Judgment. Cfr.Page No. 367, Vol. 6. No. 9, Nov. 30, 1992, Judgment Today.)
B] "So sadly and oppressively deep-rooted is caste in our country that it has cut across even the barriers of religions ... The caste system has penetrated other religions and dissenting Hindu sects to whom the practice of caste should be anathema and today we find that practitioners of other religious faith and Hindu dissentients are sometimes as rigid adherents to the system of caste as the conservative Hindus. We find Christian Dalit, Christian Nadars,Christian Reddys, Christian Kammas, Mujbi Sikhs etc... " (Art. 469, Mandal Case Judgments. Page 450. Vol. 6, No. 9, Nov. 30, 1992, Judgment Today.)
C] "... The change of religion did not always succeed in eliminating castes. The converts carried with them their castes and occupations to the new religions. The result has been that even among Sikhs,Muslims and Christians Casteism prevails in varying degrees in practice, their preaching's notwithstanding. Casteism has thus been the base of entire Indian society, the difference in its rigidity being of a degree varying from religion to religion." (Art. 400, Mandal Case Judgment Vol 6, No. 9, Nov. 30, 1992, Judgment Today). All these observations directly point to the discriminatory nature of the Order.
5a. The commission has recommended certain measures for the educational backwardness for the religious minorities, including earmarking 15 per cent seats in the non-minority educational institutions for the minorities, they said. The commission, in its report submitted to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Ji, recommended that the break up within the 15 per cent should be 10 per cent for the Muslims and the rest five per cent for the remaining minority communities, sources said.
B] ''We have said that 10 per cent of jobs should be earmarked for Muslim minorities and another 5 per cent for Christians in non minority institutions,''1 said Tahir Mehmood, Member, Rangnath Commission.
6a. As in the case with the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes at present those minority communities' candidates who can compete with others and secure admissions on their own merit shall not be included in these 15 per cent seats.
6b. With regard to linguistic minorities, the report is understood to have recommended that the law relating to the Linguistic Minorities Commissioner should be amended so as to make his office responsible for ensuring full implementation of the Constitutional provisions.
6c. The report has also suggested that the three language formula be implemented everywhere in the country making it compulsory for authorities to include in it the mother tongue of every child.
6d. Among the economic measures recommended, are 15 per cent share be earmarked for the minorities in all government schemes like the rural employment generation programme, Prime Minister`s Rozgar Yojna and Gramin Rozgar Yojna.
1. [Sandeep Bhushan NDTV, Thursday, May 24, 2007]
Ref : 22 May, 2007 l 1343 hrs IST l PTI, Zee News
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Row over Ranganath Mishra Commission report in Rajya Sabha: 'Silent' Muslim MPs stand and speak
The RS members--Ali Anwar, Sabir Ali, R Prasad and Aziz Pasha--were angry with the writer for using words like 'napunsak' [impotent] and 'shakti-vihin' [powerless] among others.
But the result of the reports published in consecutive issues of the newspaper was that the MPs who generally remain silent, had to speak up and the government that had kept the Ranganathan Mishra panel report under wraps for years, had to announce that it would be tabled in the current session of parliament.
Two years back, former Chief Justice Ranganathan Mishra had submitted this report on the status of religious and cultural minorities in the country but it was swept under the carpet. The report states that non-inclusion of Christian and Muslim Dalits in the category of Scheduled Castes that are entitled to job reservations, tantamounts to religious discrimination which is against he spirit of constitution. However, the stinging series of articles led to ruckus in Rajya Sabha and PM Manmohan Singh had to accept the demand to table it. It is noteworthy that Twocircles.net had already published the entire report.
Read translation of the article published in the Hindi newspaper:
But Rajya Sabha has become an assembly of the weaklings who can't raise voice or save the rights of the voiceless Indian citizen. Ranganath Mishra Commission was constituted before Sachar panel. Christian organisations had approached the Supreme Court that Dalits, irrespective of their religious affiliation should get the benefit of reservation and subsequently on SC verdict, the commission was constituted as per Commission of Inquiry Act.
Though its report came after Sachar panel submitted its findings, the truth is that findings of the Ranganath Mishra commission report are an eye-opener. When the report was not tabled in parliament, the Chief Information Commisioner was approached. However, CIC's directive to the government was ignored and the Central govt went to court against the CIC order. It seems that the government is trying to hoodwink the Apex Court.
November 24 would be remembered as Black Day in the history of Upper house as members sought that the report be tabled but it was not accepted. Twice the house was adjourned and then the members were given just two minutes each to speak. They said that the report had already been published in media, then why it is not being tabled.
The Speaker was sitting on the chair first [later it was deputy speaker]. He comes from the same section but it seems after reaching this post, the Speaker has distanced himself from the poor and the weaker sections. Else, he could have easily directed the government to explain when the report would be tabled.
The same day PC Chidambaram had presented the Liberhan commission report in the lower house. It had also been leaked two days back and published in a paper. Why Ranganath Misra commission report was not tabled then? There is a fine difference that needs to be understood.
Liberhan commission was related to an emotive issue. However, Ranganathan commission report deals with the real situation at the grassroots in this country. By raising emotional issue, Congress wanted to put BJP in the dock. Ironically the party's role itself came under scanner. After all, in 1992 it was a Congress PM [PV Narasimharao] who was at the helm at Delhi.
The tabling of Liberhan commission report has benefited BJP, that was appearing to be a divided house until recently. Had the Rajya Sabha chairperson ordered tabling the Justice Ranganath Mishra commission report in Rajya Sabha, it would have opened the doors of reservation to the Dalits among Muslims and Christians.
How much more these Dalit Muslims and Christians will have to suffer and sacrifice? The speaker will be responsible for their misery.....................
..................the Rajya Sabha members must realise their responsibility that they are sent to parliament by the powerless and poor to raise their voice. Do the RS members have any courage or conviction left, that they can force the government to table the report? If not, you must apologise to the nation.
[Courtesy: Chauthi Duniya Hindi weeky]
In the translated excerpts above, the words have been diluted. The MPs were upset and sought action against the journalist. However, the other result of the newspaper reports was that the same MPs did speak vociferously. Other parties including Samajwadi Party also joined in. Even the BJP demanded explanation and the opposition forced PM to state that the panel report would be tabled in this session.
Interestingly, once again the Congress' Muslim leaders remained silent. Ali Anwar, Sabir Ali and Aziz Pasha are MPs representing JDU, Lok Jana Shakti Party (LJP) and Communist Party of India (CPI). The movement for reservation for Pasmanda Muslims is strongest in Bihar.
[After independence Dalits or SCs who had for centuries suffered discrimination from Upper Castes were given benefits of reservation in jobs. However, a constitutional amendment was later made and neo-Buddhists were also extended the benefit. However, Muslim and Christian Dalits remained deprived.
The movement to get them reservation began in late 80s and gathered steam over the years. The NCRLM inquiry commission popularly known as Ranganath Misra commission was set up in 2005 and submitted its report two years later. Since then it has been in cold storage. ]
Read excerpts of the report at TCN
http://www.anindianmuslim.com/2009/12/row-over-ranganath-mishra-commission.html
RS adjourned for 15 min over Ranganath Mishra Commission report
New Delhi, Dec 8 : The Rajya Sabha witnessed noisy scenes today and was adjourned for 15 minutes during Zero Hour with Members demanding the tabling of the Ranganath Mishra Commission report in the House.
Immediately after the Question Hour ended, the matter was raised by several Members saying the report was in public domain and published in some newspapers. It should, therefore, be placed before Parliament, they said and urged the Chair to direct the government accordingly.
However, Deputy Chairman Rahman Khan said no notice had been given for the purpose and he was not in a position to direct the government to come out with a statement.
The Opposition Members were not convinced and continued to raise their voice demanding that the government at least come out with a statement.
The Chair adjourned the House for 15 minutes.
After the House re-assembled, some Members said the Minister (Salman Khursheed) had said on a TV channel that he would implement the report within six months.
The Minister, who came into the House, said the matter was sub-judice and the government would implement after the court cleared it. He also denied that he had said the government would implement the report within six months.
The agitated Members were pacified after the Minister gave the statement and the House took up the next business.
--UNI
Ranganath Commission recommends 10% quota for MuslimsBreakingNewsOnline. - 10 hours ago The Commission also favoured Scheduled Caste status for Dalits in all religions. The Ranganath Mishra Commission report was tabled in Lok Sabha by Minority ... RJD, LJP laud Ranganath panel report; VHP dubs it 'jehadi' Expressindia.com Rangnath Commission report unconstitutional: VHP Press Trust of India Guj Assembly: Cong walkout on Rangnath Mishra reportPress Trust of India - 2 hours ago Gandhinagar, Dec 19 (PTI) Opposition Congress today staged a walkout from the state Assembly on the issue of discussion on Rangnath Mishra Commission's ... Proper analysis needed on Rangnath panel recommendations: Congress Daily News & Analysis Mishra panel rebukes govt for not deleting well-off castes from OBC listTimes of India - - 17 hours ago NEW DELHI: In what may raise eyebrows of OBC satraps, the Rangnath Mishra Commission report has slammed the government's timidity to purge the OBC list of ... India: Christian groups welcome Misra ReportPakistan Christian Post - 1 hour ago (PCP) Christians groups across the country have welcomed the Government tabling the report of the Justice Rangnath Misra Commission, and have urged the ... Mishra report tabled in Lok Sabha; demands deliking SC status from religion Christian Today - India Ranganath reportCalcutta Telegraph - 16 hours ago 18 (PTI): The Centre today tabled in the Lok Sabha the Ranganath Mishra panel report that has recommended 10 per cent quota for Muslims and other minorities ... Govt to table Ranganath Mishra Commission report in Parliament soonDaily News & Analysis - Dec 15, 2009 PTI New Delhi: The government will soon table in Parliament the controversial Ranganath Mishra Commission report, which has reportedly recommended ... No ATR on Ranganath Commission report Press Trust of India Implement Misra report without further delay: Muslim groupTwoCircles.net - 22 minutes ago ... Millat Bedari Muhim Committee (MBMC), Aligarh wholeheartedly welcomed the tabling of Justice Ranganath Misra Commission Report in Parliament on Friday. ... Govt looks to bury Mishra panel's report on convertsTimes of India - Dec 16, 2009 NEW DELHI: With the Ranganath Mishra commission report recommending SC status to Hindu converts to Christianity and Islam and a subquota for minorities in ... PFI welcomes the decision to table Mishra report, demands implementationTwoCircles.net - 22 hours ago By TwoCircles.net News Desk, Patna: Popular Front of India (PFI) welcomed the decision of the UPA government to table Ranganath Mishra Commission report ... Mishra report in this session, says prime ministerDaily News & Analysis - - Dec 9, 2009 New Delhi: Prime minister Manmohan Singh promised on Wednesday that his government will table the report of the Ranganath Mishra Commission on Religious ... Ranganathan report to be tabled in this session: PM Economic Times |
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Sachar Committee
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The Rajinder Sachar Committee, appointed by the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India was a high level committee for preparation of a report on the social, economic and educational status of the Muslim community of India.
It prepared a 403-page report that was tabled in Parliament on 30 November 2006 – 20 months after obtaining the terms of reference from the PMO.[1] It has come-up with this report with suggestions and solutions to include and mainstream Indian Muslims. The report is available from the Indian Government site.[2] and also at [1]
It is the first of its kind report and it suggests adoption of suitable mechanisms to ensure equity and equality of opportunity to Muslims in residential, work and educational spaces.[3] According to Sachar Committee report the status of Indian Muslims are below the conditions of Scheduled Castes and Tribes.
There is a lot of discussions and debates goes on the Sachar Committee Report.[4]. There are follow-up actions taken based on Committee findings like the Finance Minister P. Chidambaram action funding for National Minorities Development and Finance Corporation (NMDFC).
| " | Last year, I made a modest contribution of Rs.16.47 crore to the equity of the NMDFC. Following the Sachar Committee report (on the status of minorities), NMDFC would be required to expand its reach and intensify its efforts. Hence, I propose to provide a further sum of Rs.63 crore to the share capital of NMDFC | " |
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[edit] Composition
The committee comprised seven members including four Muslims. Headed by Justice Rajinder Sachar, the other members were: Sayyid Hamid, Dr.T.K. Ooman, M.A. Basith, Dr.Akhtar Majeed, Dr.Abu Saleh Shariff and Dr.Rakesh Basant. Dr. Syed Zafar Mahmood was the civil servant appointed by the PM as Officer on Special Duty to the Committee.
During the committee's interaction with women's groups, some of them seriously articulated a grievance that it did not have any woman member. The Committee tried to make up for this by convening a half-a-day meeting with women's groups during its visits to the States. In addition to that, women social activists in large numbers attended all the meetings of all the groups and expressed their points of view and apprehensions in an open and frank manner. Their input was intensive and to the point about the various matters like education, medical facilities, Anganwadi requirements etc. The Committee also held one full day meeting in Delhi in July 2006 exclusively for women from all over India.
[edit] Main findings of the report
The entire Sachar Report is available for download at various websites.[6]
Some findings are as follows: A..Sachar committee has put a lot of analysis about the Indian Muslim with "statistical reports" based on information from government agencies, banks, Indian Minority Commission, different state governments and its agencies. The major points covered in the reports are:
- In the field of literacy the Committee has found that the rate among Muslims is very much below than the national average. The gap between Muslims and the general average is greater in urban areas and women. 25 per cent of children of Muslim parents in the 6-14 year age group have either never attended school or have dropped out.
- Muslim parents are not averse to mainstream education or to send their children to affordable Government schools. The access to government schools for children of Muslim parents is limited.
- Bidi workers, tailors and mechanics need to be provided with social safety nets and social security. The participation of Muslims in the professional and managerial cadre is low.
- The average amount of bank loan disbursed to the Muslims is 2/3 of the amount disbursed to other minorities. In some cases it is half. The Reserve Bank of India's efforts to extend banking and credit facilities under the Prime Minister's 15-point programme of 1983 has mainly benefited other minorities marginalizing Muslims.
- There is a clear and significant inverse association between the proportion of the Muslim population and the availability of educational infrastructure in small villages. Muslim concentration villages are not well served with pucca approach roads and local bus stops.
- Substantially larger proportion of the Muslim households in urban areas are in the less than Rs.500 expenditure bracket.
- The presence of Muslims has been found to be only 3% in the IAS, 1.8% in the IFS and 4% in the IPS.
- Muslim community has a representation of only 4.5% in Indian Railways while 98.7% of them are positioned at lower levels. Representation of Muslims is very low in the Universities and in Banks. Their share in police constables is only 6%, in health 4.4%, in transport 6.5%.
- For the Maulana Azad Education Foundation to be effective the corpus fund needs to be increased to 1000 crores. Total allocation in the four years 2002 to 2006 for Madarsa Modernization Scheme is 106 crores. The information regarding the Scheme has not adequately percolated down. Even if the share of Muslims in elected bodies is low they and other under represented segments can be involved in the decision making process through innovative mechanisms.
- Most of the variables indicate that Muslim-OBCs are significantly deprived in comparison to Hindu-OBCs. The work participation rate (WPR) shows the presence of a sharp difference between Hindu-OBCs (67%) and the Muslims. The share of Muslim-OBCs in government/ PSU jobs is much lower than Hindu-OBCs.
- There are about 5 lakh registered Wakfs with 600,000 acres (2,400 km²) land and Rs 6,000 crore book value.[7]
A summary of the report by the Officer on Special Duty to the Sachar Committee, Dr. Syed Zafar Mahmood, is also available.[8]
[edit] Removal of Common Stereotypes
The Sachar committee helped in a big way to expose stereotypes that had been used by right wing communal groups as part of their propaganda[9]. Some of these important findings were[9]:
- Only four per cent of Muslims students actually go to madrasas primarily because primary state schools do not exist for miles. Therefore, the idea that Muslims prefer madrasa education was found to be not true.
- That there is "substantial demand from the community for fertility regulation and for modern contraceptives" and over 20 million couples are already using contraceptives. "Muslim population growth has slowed down as fertility has declined substantially". This clarifies and puts an end to any propaganda that there has been a Muslim conspiracy afoot since 1947 to reproduce mightily, and that a danger that the Indian Hindus will be reduced to a minority due to high birth rate of Muslims.
- That Muslims wherever spoken to complained of suffering the twin calumnies of being dubbed "anti-national" and of being "appeased". However, the Indian Muslim community as a whole had never indulged in anti-national activities and the conditions borne out by the committee's findings clearly explained that no "appeasement" had taken place.
[edit] Summary of recommendations
The report put forward some recommendations to eliminate the situation raised for Indian Muslim. Justice Sachar explained that the upliftment minorities and implementation of these recommendations would strengthen the secular fabric of Indian society as well as increase patriotism due to their all inclusive progress. The recommendation include:
- Mechanisms to ensure equity and equality of opportunity and eliminate discrimination.
- Creation of a National Data Bank (NDB) where all relevant data for various Socio Religious Communities are maintained.
- Form an autonomous Assessment and Monitoring Authority to evaluate the extent of development benefits
- An Equal Opportunity Commission should be constituted to look into the grievances of the deprived groups.
- Elimination of the anomalies with respect to reserved constituencies under the delimitation scheme.
- The idea of providing certain incentives to a diversity index should be explored to ensure equal opportunities in education, governance, private employment and housing.
- A process of evaluating the content of the school textbooks needs to be initiated and institutionalized.
- The UGC should evolve a system where part of the allocation to colleges and universities is linked to the diversity in the student population.
- Providing hostel facilities at reasonable costs for students from minorities must be taken up on a priority basis.
- The Committee recommended promoting and enhancing access to Muslims in Priority Sector Bank Advances.
- The real need is of policy initiatives that improve the participation and share of the Minorities, particularly Muslims in the business of regular commercial banks.
- The community should be represented on interview panels and Boards. The underprivileged should be helped to utilize new opportunities in its high growth phase through skill development and education.
- Provide financial and other support to initiatives built around occupations where Muslims are concentrated and have growth potential.[7][10]
- The Committee made no recommendation of "reservations" per se, but suggests that those among the minority communities who approximate in terms of social and occupational status the scheduled and backward classes among Hindus be classified as Most Backward Castes and proferred the same benefits that relevant Articles of the Constitution make available to counterparts among Hindus.[9]
[edit] Responses to the committee findings
There are different responses to the sachar committee findings from different part of India.[11][12]
[edit] Follow-up action taken
[edit] 15-point minorities welfare programme
The Prime Minister has also unfolded a comprehensive 15-point programme for the welfare and empowerment of minorities.The new plan wants to help the minorities by Enhancing opportunities for education.Ensuring equitable share in economic activities and employment,Improving the conditions of living of minorities,Prevention and control of communal disharmony and violence.
[edit] Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) or "Education for All Programme", a national flagship programme to provide quality elementary education to all children in the 6 – 14 years age group through a time bound approach. Based on the data obtained from Census as well as District Information System for Education (DISE), SRI-IMRB Survey etc., the Government has made a number of interventions in SSA to help the minority (Muslim) children in education. One of the thrust areas is to ensure availability of schools in all minority concentrated districts. During 2005-06, 4624 primary and Upper primary schools, and about 31,702 Education Guarantee Scheme (EGS) Centres were sanctioned in minority concentrated districts. During 2006-07, 6918 new primary and upper primary schools have been sanctioned in minority-dominated districts. 32,250 EGS centres with a total enrolment of 120.90 lakh children have been sanctioned for 2006-07. Sanction has also been accorded for enrolment of 11.25 lakh children in Alternative & Innovative Education (AIE) during 2006-07 in these districts. Madrasas/Makhtabs have been covered under SSA. The Madarsas affiliated to the State Madarasa Boards and satisfying certain conditions are eligible for such assistance as is available to other regular schools under SSA. So far 8309 madarsas have been assisted.
[edit] Facilities for minority girls
Free textbooks are provided to all minority girls from classes I-VIII. Urdu textbooks are provided for Urdu medium schools and for Urdu as a subject. Based on the 1981 Census, 93 districts (now 99) in 16 states have been identified for focused attention. The major focus is on the states of Bihar, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and Assam. Out of the 1180 Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas (KGBV), 210 schools have been sanctioned in minority blocks, 1430 minority girls have already been enrolled in KGBVs till 31.3.06.
[edit] Muslim concentration districts
In addition to above measures, there is also a special focus on 93 districts, which was found to be having more than 20% Muslim population in the 1981 census, for SSA investments in 2005-06 and 2006-07. Sachar Committee's recommendations in the sphere of education include a special focus on free and compulsory education; institutionalizing the process of evaluating school textbooks so that they better reflect community-specific sensitivities; setting up quality government schools, especially for girls in areas of Muslim concentration; and providing priming education in Urdu in areas where the language is widely in use. The Government measures outlined above, show that the country is already moving in the direction pointed out by the Sachar Committee.
[edit] Criticism
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Indian media expert[13] Dasu Krishnamoorti has criticized the way the media has handled the report. He criticizes them saying that Positive journalism means projecting the Muslims as us and not them.[14]. Sunil Jain in an article in rediff says The problem with all such data, however, is that you need to "normalise" it for any meaningful conclusions to be made. Sachar does this only partially[15], and that rather than basing its results on the entire population of Muslims, the Report should only have considered those Muslims with a college degree.
In addition, the demands made by the Sachar Committee to provide preferential treatment to Muslims in the Indian Army to bring about a fairer representation have been severely criticized by members of the Indian Armed Forces as well as the right wing BJP political party. Retired Colonel Anil Athale of the Indian Army comments that it is vital that the Indian Armed forces remain secular and not give preference to anybody irrespective of religion, and that the Sachar Committee seeks to undermine that legacy.[2] However, there was However, Dr. Sachar replied to this criticism saying that it was an uncalled for attempt to communalise a non-issue. He said replying to the argument.
But I think that is a very stupid argument. Are not the all India services like the Railways and banks and others supposed to be secular? We were able to find out the Muslim representation in services like the Indian Administrative Service or the Indian Police Service without controversy. So, were they suggesting that secretaries and joint secretaries are less secular than those in the armed forces?
He further explained that too much was being read into the exercise.
We are just carrying out a factual survey of the representation of Muslims in all services. This is not limited to the armed forces. This includes the Police, the Judiciary, the IAS (Indian Administrative Service), and State Services and Muslim representation in all walks of life.
The Sachar commission findings were later alleged by the BJP political party to be manipulated for electoral purposes.[16]
[edit] Responses from organisations and political parties
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- Syed Shahabuddin,the former MP from Janata Dal says Sachar Committee has collected the facts and figures more than suffice. But it should have put forward some concrete resolution like Minority Reservation if needed.[17].
- BJP representative Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has said
| " | Sachar committee was created for vote-bank reasons. It was designed to serve a political purpose especially ahead of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.[16] | " |
and elsewhere BJP leaders have given statements and have said that the report is "distorted, politically motivated and dangerous"[18][19]. BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi said that the tone and texture of the Sachar Committee "has a striking similarity to the Muslim League of pre-independence era. Unfortunately, the government is irrationally following a policy of blind populism which threatens to divide the nation."[18]. BJP is currently the only political party that has publicly opposed the findings. The BJP has since seem to have accepted the findings and charged that if such is the state of the Muslim community it is only the Congress which is to blame[9]. Their 2009 election manifesto included on minority communities and improving their situation similar to the Sachar committee recommendations in many ways [20].
- The JD(U)party president, which is a senior member of the NDA coalition along with BJP, Sharad Yadav has strongly voiced his support and demanded quick implementation of the committee findings. He also emphasised the importance of including Dalit Muslims and Christians in the SC category as they are the only communities that are being discriminated against for the past 60 years[21].
- The Akali Dal - another prominent NDA ally has stated that it sees nothing wrong if deprived minorities are attended to in a special way. Given that low-caste Sikhs have been beneficiaries of affirmative action since 1956[9].
- The National Congress Party (NCP) has also urged the government to table the bill for implementing the committee findings even if an emergency session has to be called.[22]
- There has been no popular "outcry" among the mainstream population about the committee findings and, in fact, in a poll conduct by a major media agency - 40% of the respondents preferred full implementation of the recommendations[9].
[edit] References
Complete Sachar Report
- ^ Clarification On the Work of Justice Rajindar Sachar Committee
- ^ Sachar Committee Report
- ^ Impressive analysis
- ^ National Seminar On Sachar Committee Report in Hyderabad
- ^ More funds for minorities' welfare
- ^ Complete Sachar Report http://godgraces.org/files/Muslim%20Report.pdf
- ^ a b Community on the margins
- ^ Summary of Sachar Report by PM's Officer on Special Duty to the Committee http://godgraces.org/summary_pmhlc.html
- ^ a b c d e f http://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article96.html
- ^ Summarised Sachar Report on Status of Indian Muslims
- ^ Responses To Sachar Committee findings
- ^ Response From an M.P
- ^ Welcome to Dasu Krishnamoorthy Media Site
- ^ Media Response to Sachar Report, Dasu Krishnamoorthy
- '^ Sachar Report, Myth and reality,Rediff.com
- ^ a b Report shows Sachar findings manipulated: BJP Times of India - 31 March 2007
- ^ Syed Shahabuddin on Sachar Committee findings
- ^ a b BJP criticized govt on Sachar report,Rediff.com
- ^ BJP leader criticized Sachar report,The Hindu
- ^ http://www.bjp.org/images/pdf/election_manifesto_english.pdf
- ^ http://www.bihartimes.com/Newsbihar/2009/June/Newsbihar02June1.html
- ^ http://www.indopia.in/India-usa-uk-news/latest-news/4090/National/1/22/1
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[edit] External links
- Muslim deprivation widespread: Sachar Committee [3]
- Appeal to Sachar Committee [4]
- Sachar Committee Report executive summary (English)
- The Rajendra Sachar Commission Report: Missing Facts No One Dares to Speak Of
- The Sachar report: A flawed number game
Mandal Commission
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The Mandal Commission in India was established in 1979 by the Janata Party government under Prime Minister Morarji Desai with a mandate to "identify the socially or educationally backward."[1] It was headed by Indian parliamentarian Bindheshwari Prasad Mandal to consider the question of seat reservations and quotas for people to redress caste discrimination, and used eleven social, economic, and educational indicators to determine "backwardness." In 1980, the commission's report affirmed the affirmative action practice under Indian law whereby members of lower castes (known as Other Backward Classes (OBC) and Scheduled Castes and Tribes) were given exclusive access to a certain portion of government jobs and slots in public universities, and recommended changes to these quotas, increasing them by 27% to 49.5%.Indus valley civilization
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