3/5/2014: Minorities On The March: UPLIFTING WEAKER SECTIONS

To document the social, economic and educational status of the Muslim community of India, a High Level Committee was constituted in 2005 under the Chairmanship of Justice Rajinder Sachar — commonly known as the Sachar Committee.On the basis

The Central Government accepted 72 recommendations out of the 76 recommendations listed from the Sachar Committee Report. Three recommendations were not accepted and one recommendation was deferred. The Government has taken 43 decisions in respect of the 72 ...

As a follow up to the Sachar Committee recommendations, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will inaugurate tomorrow the National Waqf Development Corporation Limited (NAWADCO), a new Central Public Sector Enterprise under the Minority Affairs Ministry, ...

The Sachar Committee in its report dated 17.11.2006 recommended to treat waqf as Public Premises as these properties are for the benefit of public and not for individual and encroachment on these properties to be treated as encroachment on Government Land. In ...

Bangalore Friday Forum (BFF), a non-profit organization, conducted a talk on A Karnataka perspective of Sachar Committee Recommendations & the role of advocacy by Mr. M. A. Basith, member Sachar Committee, here on February 23. Union Minister for ...

The Minority Affairs Ministry is preparing a Cabinet note to set up an Equal Opportunities Commission, based on the recommendations of Justice Sachar committee. The timing of the move is significant with national elections due by May. The Sachar committee ...

Jesse Jackson's visit to Calcutta recalled a state department recommendation in 1949 that it would be a good idea to send only Black (then called Negro) diplomats to newly-independent India. Even if a case could be made out for rewarding tokenism ...

New Delhi, Jan 29 (IBNS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said the Congress-led (UPA) is committed to the protection and promotion of the interests of minorities. Addressing at the the inauguration of (NAWADCO) here, Singh said: "The UPA ...

Minority Affairs Ministry writes to CMs asking them to ensure that minority communities are not neglected New Delhi : As a sequel to the equal opportunity commission set up on February 20 to help the minorities, the Minority Affairs Ministry has ...