New Delhi: A committee examining the implementation of the recommendations made by the Sachar Committee, set up by the erstwhile UPA government to look into the socio-economic status of Muslims, submitted its report to the minority affairs ministry here Thursday.
The seven-member review committee, headed by Amitabh Kundu of the Jawaharlal Nehru University, submitted its report to Minority Affairs Minister Najma Heptullah, an official release said here.
As per the mandate of the committee, it evaluated and assessed the implementation of the recommendations of the Rajinder Sachar Committee and made suggestions for obtaining better outcomes, the release said.
Heptulla promised to implement the recommendations after studying the report as early as possible.
The government constituted the committee under the chairmanship of Kundu and including seven other eminent social scientists in September 2013, with the mandate to evaluate the process of implementation of the Sachar Committee report and the prime minister’s new 15-point programme.