By TCN News,
New Delhi: The Welfare Party of India has welcomed the Union Government’s decision to set up an Equal Opportunity Commission, a statutory body, to check discrimination of minority communities in jobs and education.
Sachar Committee had recommended the creation of an Equal Opportunity Commission in India on the lines of the UK Race Relation Act 1976. This recommendation was pending since 2006. Instead of getting it passed in Parliament and enacted, the UPA Government sat on it all these years.
“By taking this decision at the fag-end of the current government, UPA government has effectively placed the ball in the court of the next government. This belated initiative on the part of the Congress-led Government at the 11th hour is nothing but lip service,” said Dr SQR Ilyas, national general secretary of WPI.
He added, “This bill will meet the same fate as the Communal Violence Bill. UPA-II did not show the political will to get it passed through Parliament. The Congress-led government at the Centre lacks sincerity and is merely interested in showbiz.”