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New Delhi: Even though the government is yet to find a way to implement the recommendations made by the Ranganath Mishra Commissions on reservation, it is now planning to setup the Equal Opportunity Commission (EOC).

 

"Work on it is taking place in an accelerated pace. The Prime Minister has constituted a Group of Ministers (GoM) which will start working soon. After this, it will come before the Cabinet and then finally, it will be tabled before Parliament", Minister of Minority Affairs Salman Khursheed said Tuesday when asked about the government's plan to set up an Equal Opportunity Commission, which will prescribe diversity index for industries and government sector for affirmative action.

 

"We want the coordination work among various political parties needed for passing the Bill to be completed before it is brought before the cabinet and Parliament," he said.

 

Meanwhile, the government today indicated it is in no hurry to implement the Rangnath Mishra Commission report, which recommended reservation for the minorities besides SC status to Muslim and Christian Dalits, saying it is a matter of "great sensitivity".

 

"This is a matter of great seriousness but also of great sensitivity. We have to consult widely and this is what we are going to do. The government will take a collective view on the issue," Salman Khurshid told reporters here when asked if and when the government intends to implement the report.

 

Asked how serious the government on the issue was, the minister said, "Government is always serious about everything but the point is that every recommendation cannot be accepted and is not accepted".

 

"Whatever is found sensible, politically, practically and constitutionally viable and acceptable to people is accepted," he added.

 

Earlier, while speaking with the media Salman Khursheed had said, he had doubts about the implementations of the Mishra Panel's recommendations in its present form.

 

“I have doubts about the implementation of its recommendations, but it needs to be studied,” the minister had said yesterday.

 

“Now the report is out in public, we need a debate over it. Full cabinet has to consider it. We will examine it with sincerity,” Khursheed said.

 

Asked if a religion-based quota was in accordance with the constitution, Khursheed said the panel had the former Supreme Court judge as its head and “the report cannot be dismissed outrightly”.

 

“We need to study it thoroughly and see what can be implemented. As of now I cannot say a clear yes or no,” he said.

 

He said the government was also “considering other models available to it for providing reservation to minorities”.

 

“Inclusion of backward classes of the minorities in the existing 27 percent structure of the OBC can be a possibility and the government is considering it,” he said.

 


 

 

 

 

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