Press Trust of India Posted online: Thursday, December 07, 2006 at 1725 hours IST Updated: Thursday, December 07, 2006 at 1809 hours IST
New Delhi, December 7: After the Sachar report, another report is in the making, which is being claimed to take the Sachar report to a ‘logical conclusion’.
Apart from suggesting reservation to castes outside the Hindu-fold, the other report is also about to suggest some landmark changes in the way reservation has been executed over the years.
The four-member, National Commission for Religious and Linguistic Minorities, headed by former Supreme court Chief Justice Ranganath Misra, is understood to be coming out with its report early next year.
Sources said the Misra commission report "would attempt to take the Sachar report to a logical conclusion."
The commission till date has had 60 sittings in all and is slated to have couple of more before coming out with the report sometime around the coming budget session of the Parliament.
It wants to start a debate with the very concept of reservation as practiced and is set to come up with suggestions like "opening up of a much greater access rather than blind benefits to a particular section of the society," the sources added.
"In the present context of reservation, maximum benefits are cornered by the more powerful castes and by the more powerful families within in a caste," it added.
The sources said "the creamy layer issue would be addressed aptly in the report" and the suggestions would form a roadmap for the government to act in the direction.
The commission has a three-point mandate to suggest criteria for identification of socially and economically backward sections among religious and linguistic minorities, to recommend measures for welfare of socially and economically backward section among religious and linguistic minorities including reservation in education and government employment.
The commission also has a mandate to 'suggest the necessary constitutional, legal and administrative modalities, as required for the implementation of their recommendations and to present a report of their deliberations and recommendations.'
New Delhi, December 7: After the Sachar report, another report is in the making, which is being claimed to take the Sachar report to a ‘logical conclusion’.
