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“Implement Sachar Committee report”

Staff Reporter

NCP leader Bidhuri also seeks a separate minorities financial body

NEW DELHI: Delhi Nationalist Congress Party president and MLA Ramvir Singh Bidhuri on Thursday staged a dharna near Delhi Secretariat demanding that the State Government take immediate steps to implement the recommendations of the Sachar Committee report on minorities.

Any further delay would send a wrong signal to the community and cast a shadow on the intentions of the Government, he said.

Talking to news persons, Mr. Bidhuri said that to begin with legislative or executive measures should be initiated to provide 15 per cent reservation for minorities in Government jobs and public sector undertakings of the Delhi Government.

Noting that it had been months since the Sachar Committee submitted its report, the NCP leader said it was high time the Government acted on the recommendations to provide the benefits to the minorities.

‘Uplift of minorities’

Stating that “the Sachar Committee report has provided the basis for re-development and uplift of minorities,” he said an emergency session of the Delhi Assembly should be called to discuss the issue and implement the report immediately. While calling for making 15 per cent reservation for minorities in Government jobs mandatory, he said, “a separate Minorities Development Financial Corporation should also be formed ”.

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