Following are the recommendations of the Rajindar Sachar committee report on the social, economic and educational status of the Muslim community in the country tabled in Parliament on Thursday:
- Setting up an Equal Opportunity Commission to look into grievances of deprived groups like minorities.
- Working out nomination procedure to increase participation of minorities in public bodies.
- Providing legal mechanism to address complaints of discrimination against minorities in matters of employment, housing, schooling and obtaining bank loans.
- Establishing a delimitation procedure that does not reserve constituencies with high minority population for SCs
- Initiating and institutionalising a process of evaluating contents of textbooks to purge them of explicit and implicit material that may impart inappropriate social values, especially religious intolerance.
- Creating a national data bank where all relevant data for various socio-religious categories are maintained.
- Setting up an autonomous assessment and monitoring authority to evaluate the extent of development benefits, which accrue to different socio-religious categories through various programmes.
- Encouraging the University Grants Commission to evolve a system where part of allocation to colleges and universities is linked to diversity in student population.
- Facilitating admissions to the most backward amongst all socio-religious categories in regular universities and autonomous colleges and evolving alternate admission criteria
