Sachar Committee

Sachar committee has put a lot of analysis about the Indian Muslim with “statistical reports” based on information from government agencies, banks,Indian Minority Commission, different state governments and its agencies

The Sachar committee report helped in a big way to remove common stereotypes

The report put forward some recommendations to eliminate the situation raised for Indian Muslim. Justice Sachar explained that the upliftment minorities and implementation of these recommendations would strengthen the secular fabric of Indian society as well as increase patriotism due to their all inclusive progress

Sachar Committee have been grouped under the major areas namely 

(i) Education; 

(ii) Skill Development; 

(iii) Access to credit; 

(iv) Special development initiatives; 

(v) Measures for affirmative action; 

(vi) Wakfs; and 

(vii) Miscellaneous

The Committee made a number of recommendations to address the status of the Muslim community in India, including:

• Set up an Equal Opportunity Commission to look into grievances of deprived groups like minorities.

• Create a nomination procedure to increase participation of minorities in public bodies.

• Establish a delimitation procedure that does not reserve constituencies with high minority population for SCs.

• Increase employment share of Muslims, particularly where there is great deal of public dealing. Work out mechanisms to link madarsas with higher secondary school board.

• Recognize degrees from madarsas for eligibility in defence, civil and banking examinations.