By TwoCircles.net news desk
New Delhi: As a follow up action to the Sachar Committee Report, the Ministry of Minority Affairs has constituted two Expert Groups (a) one to recommend an appropriate diversity index to promote diversity in living, educational and work spaces (b) the other to examine and determine the structure and functions of an Equal Opportunity Commission for the minority communities in the country. Notifications to this effect have been issued by the Ministry recently.
The first Expert Group will recommend an appropriate diversity index for promoting diversity in living, educational and workspaces. This group will have Prof. Amitabh Kundu as Chairman and Prof. Sugata Marjit, Prof. Md. Abdul Kalam, Dr. Ashwini Deshpande and Dr. Hasib Drabu as Members. The terms of reference of this Expert Group will be to develop and devise a transparent and acceptable index to measure diversity in the areas of education, government and private employment and housing; to suggest an appropriate structure of incentives & disincentives; to suggest a suitable mechanism for operationalising the diversity index and monitoring its implementation and to make any other recommendations relevant to the above.
The second Expert Group to examine and determine the structure and functions of an Equal Opportunity Commission will have Prof (Dr.) N.R. Madhava Menon as Chairman and Prof Javeed Alam, Prof Satish Deshpande, Prof Yogendra Yadav and Prof. Gopal Guru as Members. The terms of reference of this Expert Group will be to recommend the structure, scope and functions of the proposed Equal Opportunity Commission; to advise on an appropriate legislative framework for such a Commission and to make any other recommendations relevant to the above.
The Expert Groups will submit their reports within a period of three months.