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 "Sachar report is old wine in new bottle" says former National Commission for Minorities Chairman
Press
Release
The Milli Gazette
“The Sachar exercise is nothing unprecedented. Its much-publicized report neither unearths any hitherto unknown facts nor recommends any novel measures” – says Tahir Mahmood, former Chairman of the National Minorities Commission. That the Muslims of India are “educationally backward, economically lagging behind the other communities and relatively too much under-represented in government employment are well known ground realities bourn out by several successive reports replete with authentic data prepared and submitted by the Minorities Commission, Planning Commission’s Sub-Groups on Minorities and the celebrated Gopal Singh Panel of 1980s”, Professor Mahmood told the media. The real problem in his opinion has been of “societal insensitivity and official apathy” in this regard. “If the custodians of State authority do not yet take any meaningful steps to remedy the situation, this new superfluous exercise will also remain meaningless”, adds Dr
Mahmood.
Professor
Dr Tahir Mahmood
Expert-Member, Government of India's National
Commission for Religious & Linguistic Minorities; Amity's Ambassador
for
Interfaith Dialogue; Founder-Chairman, Amity University's Institute of
Advanced Legal Studies & School of Religion and Law; New Delhi, India
syedtahirmahmood@hotmail.com
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