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Govt. on track to implement Sachar recommendations: Khursheed

Tuesday, July 21, 2009 06:17:06 PM, PTI

New Delhi: Government is putting into action most of the recommendations of the Sachar Committee and is working out a methodology to provide reservation to backward sections among minorities, Union Minister for Minority Affairs Salman Khursheed said today.

"The government has already accepted 95-96 per cent of recommendations of the Sachar committee and funding has begun for multi-sectoral development of 90 districts having concentration of minority population," Khursheed said here.

He said 55-60 plans prepared by the Planning Commission in this regard have been cleared and the government is also working on devising schemes to offer positive discrimination to the backward sections among the minorities.

"We have some models for providing reservation to minorities, including the model implemented in Andhra Pradesh, besides those in Karnataka and Kerala.

"Discussions are on for devising and replicating such programmes on a larger scale,"he told reporters on the sidelines of a function to felicitate India Islamic Cultural Centre members elected to the 15th Lok Sabha.

The Sachar committee did not recommend reservation on the basis of religion but recommended that the 'most backward sections' among religious minorities be brought into the ambit of groups given the benefit of reservation.

Those felicitated included Union Minister Farooq Abdullah, AICC General Secretary Digvijay Singh, BJP leader Syed Shahnawaz Hussian and Congress MP Mohammad Azharuddin.

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