Most of the recommendations by Sachar Committee have been implemented by the Centre, Union Minority Affairs Minister K Rahman Khan said here on Sunday.
As many as 67 Sachar Committee recommendations have already been implemented and only three are pending. Efforts are on to implement these suggestions also, he said, without elaborating.
The panel was set up in 2005 by the UPA Government to prepare a report on the latest social, economic and educational condition of the Muslim community in the country.
It was headed by former Chief Justice of Delhi High Court Rajinder Sachar. The Government is in the process of forming a committee to monitor use of Central funds given to the States, Khan said. The minister was speaking at a religious function here. The government is in the process of forming a committee to monitor use of Central funds given to the states, Khan said.
"We have done full honesty in implementing recommendations of Sachar committee. We will soon constitute equal opportunities commission", Khan said while taking to reporters here.
"It's being touted that we have not implemented recommendations of Sachar committee. But the truth is that out of 72, we identified 69 and implemented 66 recommendations", Khan claimed.
He said that except diversity index, equal opportunities commission and national data bank, UPA government had implemented all the recommendations identified by the ministry.
The Union minister said in the coming monsoon session, the government would bring Waqf amendment bills and a separate Bill to check illegal encroachments on Waqf properties.
Rahman said that the Muslims should take advantage of the schemes run for them by the central Government. The Governments are elected by the people and hence the governments are of the people and in democracy people power is supreme, he added.
The Union Minister for Minority Affairs said that the Muslims should take modern education along with the religious education so that they could compete with the modern world also.