By TCN News,
New Delhi: To put pressure on the government to implement the recommendations of Sachar Committee and Ranganath Mishra Commission, a national convention on Minority rights was organized on 4th December 2010 in New Delhi.
The convention was organized by three social organizations — Democratic Forum for National Integration (Kolkata), Awaaz (Hyderabad) and Muslim Intelligentsia Forum (Delhi). A number of dignitaries, political, religious and social leaders, students and teachers as well as common people attended the convention.
The convention was divided into two sessions to discuss Sachar Committee and Ranganath Mishra Commission reports separately.
The first session was on Implementation of the Mishra Commission recommendations in which speakers talked in length on the issue from different angles.
In this session, Abdus Sattar, Minister of State for Minority and Madarsa Education, West Bengal, spoke from the floor. He gave a brief report on the West Bengal Govt. decision to reserve 10% of State Govt. jobs for OBC Muslims and undertaking the drive to identify and notify the eligible communities.
The speakers who spoke in this session include K. Rahman Khan (Deputy Chairman, Rajya Sabha), Maulana Anisur Rahman Qasmi (General Secretary of Imarat Shariah, Bihar, Jharkhand and Orissa), PS Krishnan, (Former Member Secretary of National Commission for Backward Classes), Ali Anwar Ansari (JD-U MP), Moinul Hasan, CPI(M) MP, and KT Jaleel ,MLA from Kerala.
The session was presided over by Prof. Anwar Pasha, Assistant Prof JNU. At the end of the session a resolution was passed which demanded that the government should stop dragging its feet over the Ranganath Mishra Commission Report and give 10% reservations for socially and educationally backward Muslims without delay as the commission recommended.
In the second session Sachar Committee recommendations were discussed. The session was chaired by Zahiruddin Khan, Managing Editor of Urdu daily Siasat(Hyderabad) while the speakers were Dr Syeda Hameed, Member Planning Commission, Mohammad Ashraf Ali Fatmi, RJD leader and Former Minister, TK Hamza former CPI(M)MP, Mohd Salim, Chairman, West Bengal Minorities Financial Development Board.
At the convention a resolution was passed which called upon government for a comprehensive review of the implementation of the Sachar Committee recommendations including a full debate in Parliament on the Report which is long overdue.
The convention also urged the Union government to adopt more firm and decisive policies for the advancement of the Muslim minority including a Minority sub-Plan without further delay.