Sub. : Press Release on the tabling of the Ranganath Mishra Commission’s report in Parliament today.

The National Commission on Backward Religious and Linguistic Minorities was constituted on 29 Oct. 2004 under the chairmanship of Justice Ranganath Mishra former Hon'ble Chief Justice of India. The Commission submitted it's report along with their recommendations, in the month of May 2007,to the Government of India.
The report has been tabled in the Parliament today.

            Action taken report however, has not been tabled alongwith the recommendations.   Lok Janshakti party demands that action taken report alongwith the time bound implementation schedule for the implementation of the recommendation of the Commission should be made public at the earliest.

            As has been appearing in the newspapers this Commission has recommended that consideration the pathetic Socio-Economic condition of the Minorities particularly Muslim in the country, they should be considered as backward and given reservation in Government employment, education etc. on this following pattern.

Reservation in Government Employment

“Since the minorities – especially the Muslim – are very much under – represented, and sometimes wholly unrepresented, in government employment, we recommend that they should be regarded as backward in this respect within the meaning of that term as used in Article 16 (4) of the Constitution. And that 15 percent of posts in all cadres and grades under the Central and State Governments should be earmarked for them as follows:

The break up within the recommended 15 percent shall be 10 percent for the Muslims and the remaining 5 percent for the other minorities.

 Educational Measures

“At least 15 percent seats in all non-minorities educational institutions should be earmarked by law for the minorities as follows:

      The break up within the recommended 15 percent earmarked seats in institutions shall be 10 percent for the Muslims and the remaining 5 percent for the other minorities”.

Economic Measures

“A 15 percent share be earmarked for the minorities – with a break up of 10 percent for the Muslims and 5 percent for the other minorities in all government schemes like Rural Employment Generation Programme, Prime Minister’s Rozgar Yojna, Grameen Rozgar Yojna, etc. “

Schedule Caste Status for Schedule Caste Muslims and Schedule Caste Christians

“The Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order 1950 – which originally restricted the Scheduled Caste net to the Hindus and later opened it to Sikhs and Buddhists, thus still excluding from its purview the Muslims, Christians, Jains and Parsis, etc, - should be wholly deleted by appropriate action so as to completely de-link the Scheduled Caste status from religion and make the Scheduled Castes net fully religion neutral like that of the Scheduled Tribes”.

            Lok Janshakti Party demands that Action Taking Report alongwith a time bound implementation scheduled of the recommendation may be made public at the earliest.

(Abdul Khaliq)
Secretary General
Lok Janshakti Party