RECOMMANDATIONS OF SACHAR COMMITTEE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES:-

And what does the Sachar Committee recommend?
• Recognition of the degrees from madrassas for eligibility in competitive examinations such as the civil services, banks, defence services and other such examinations?
• It recommends that a higher proportion of Muslims be inducted in offices that deal with the public-' the teaching community, health workers, police personnel, bank employees and so on.' It recommends ' provision of equivalence' to madrassa certificates/degrees for subsequent admissions into institutions of higher level of education'.
• It recommends that advances be made to Muslims as part of the obligation imposed on banks to give advances to Priority Sectors.
• It recommends the adoption of ' alternate admission criteria' in universities and autonomous colleges: assessment of merit should not be assigned more than 60 per cent out of the total- the remaining 40 per cent should be assigned in accordance with the income of the household the backwardness of the district, and the backwardness of the caste and occupation of the family.
• It recommends changes in the way constituencies are delimited. It recommends that where Muslims are elected or selected in numbers less than adequate, 'a carefully conceived' nomination' procedure' be worked out 'to increase the participation of minorities at the grass roots.'
• It is imperative that if the minorities have certain perceptions of being aggrieved', notice the touchstone-'if the minorities have certain perceptions of being aggrieved ' 'all efforts should be made by the state to find a mechanism by which these complaints could be attended to expeditiously.
What more in needed to stoke reaction ?
Indian Express 29/12/2007
Arun Shourie