"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 in New Delhi.
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," Khursheed said.
"Discussions are on for devising and replicating such programmes on a larger scale," he told mediapersons 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, All India Congress Committee General Secretary Digvijay Singh, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Syed Shahnawaz Hussian and Congress Member of Parliament Mohammad Azharuddin.
