Patriots Forum questions need for Sachar Committee
ET Bureau Jan 24, 2014, 06.26PM IST
यद्यपि सच्चर समिति प्रधान मंत्री के कार्यालय कि पहल पर बनी थी पर जब विषय का गहन अध्ययन किया गया तो पाया गया की यह कदम गैर कानूनी ही नहीं बल्कि गरीब हिन्दुओं के साथ छलावा है . श्री राम कुमार ओहरी भारतीय पुलिस सेवा के पूर्व अधिकारी व् श्री डी के मित्तल के इकोनोमिक टाइम्स के निम्न लिखित लेख मैं उसकी आवश्यकता ही नहीं बल्कि नैतिकता पर भी सवाल उठाये हैं .उनके अनुसार यह संविधान का उल्लंघन है . इस विषय पर पैत्रिओत फोरम ने एक दिल्ली हाई कोर्ट मैं जन हित याचिका भी डाली थी जिसकी सुनवाई अब सुप्रीम कोर्ट मैं होगी क्योंकि गुजरात , आंध्र व् मुंबई मैं भी यह प्रश्न उठे हैं .
इस विषय पर श्री ओहरी व् जय प्रकाश शर्मा जी की पुस्तक ‘ द मेजोरिटी रिपोर्ट मैं विस्तृत चर्चा की गयी है .पाठक व्ज्शय को विस्तार से जानने के लिए इस पुस्तक को अवश्य पढ़ें .इस पुस्तक मैं यह अचम्भे वाली खोज है की वास्तव मैं भारत का मुसलमान हिन्दुओं से आगे है .इस लिए सरकार की इस भेद भाव पूर्ण नीति का कोई औचित्य नहीं है .
NEW DELHI: Sachar Committee, set up by the Prime Minister’s office in March 2005 to look into social, economic and educational condition of Muslims in India is treated as the ‘Bible’ by both the central government and the state governments for protecting and promoting the rights of the Muslim community.
However Patriots Forum, a group of devoted to preservation and promotion of ancient Indic culture argues against the merits of such a committee.
RK Ohri a former IPS oficer and D K Mittal a former bureaucrat, both part of the Patriots Forum argue that the Committee is, as it is, and ab initio unconstitutional as being violative of Art 15 (1) of the Indian Constitution that forbids the formation of any such a Committee on religion basis. Besides, where was the need for such separate religion-based Committee when there already existed a National Commission for Minorities? ask Mr Ohri and Mr Mittal.
Sachar Committee’s recommendations are based on factual inaccuracies, misrepresentations of the provisions of Articles 29 & 30 and untruths in terms of the Census Report of 2001 of the Government of India.
According to Mr Ohri and Mr Mittal, the Committee did not accommodate representations for hearing, whereas the concerned notification had asked for the same. Further, while tabling the ‘Action Taken’ Report on it on the floor of the House, the government almost surreptitiously expanded the scope of the committee to include all ‘minorities’, thus going beyond the original terms of committee that was meant for only the Muslim community.
Further, the survey made to make the recommendations was not only untruthful but avoided many facts apparent on the ground or brought to its notice otherwise. Thus, while trying to bolster up the socio-economic status of the minority communities, the recommendations of the Sachar Committee led to accentuation of communal disharmony in the country. The governments both in the centre and the states made full use (misuse?) of these recommendations with a clear eye on vote-bank politics.
Further questioning the need for the committee Mr Mittal says that Musclims are actually better off than Hindus in several aspects. Apart from the higher growth rates in population and also higher rate of growth of cohorts, 0-6 age group, in terms of four of the five globally accepted human development indices, namely, infant mortality, child mortally, death rate at birth and industrialization, as brought out in the Census Report 2001, of government, the Muslim community is better off than the Hindus.
Even then statistically, they lag behind in almost all countries in the world, including the Islamic countries, primarily because of the ‘scriptural’ bar against the women folk among them to work and thus failing to add to the family income. All these make the members of the majority committee feel second-rate citizens and the poorer sections among them highly discriminated against.
A PIL (Public Interest Litigation), filed against the Sachar Committee has since been admitted & is pending hearing at the court of the Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court. Cases against the recommendations of the Sachar Committee have also been filed in the High Courts of Bombay, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat. All these cases have now been clubbed and referred to the Supreme Court.
