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Wednesday, Oct 06, 2004

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Review of Minorities Act recommended

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, OCT. 5. The Delhi Minorities Commission has recommended to the Delhi Government to constitute a high-power committee to review the Delhi Minorities Act, 1999, so that the inadequacies in it are rectified.

At a press conference here on Monday, the DMC Chairman, Abu Baker, said it had also recommended creation of a minority cell in the Delhi Government, besides formation of a high-level committee for reservation in educational institutes and jobs for the marginalised sections of the minority community, modernisation of madarsa education and constitution of a State madarsa Board."

The present DMC -- that includes Abu Baker, Valson Thampu and P.S. Bawa as members representing Muslim, Christian and Sikh communities -- has completed one-year.

The DMC secretary, Ravi Kanth, informed that the government has already given the go-ahead to the Commission's recommendation to have in place the reconstituted Delhi Wakf Board.

Mr. Bawa expressed displeasure over the fact that Punjabi language had not been given its due prominence in Delhi schools even though it has been accorded the status of second official language. "It should be mandatory upon all Delhi schools to have Punjabi as secondary language".

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