Sachar Committee

A committee headed by Justice Rajindar Sachar was formed in 2005 to look into the social, economic and educational status of the Muslim Community of the country. It submitted its report in 2006 with the following observations and recommendations:

Recommendations: Setting up an Equal Opportunity Commission to look into grievances of deprived groups like minorities.

• Providing legal mechanism for addressing complaints of discrimination against minorities in matters of employment, housing, schooling and obtaining bank loans.
• Establishing a delimitation procedure that does not reserve constituencies with high minority population for SCs.
• Creating a National Data Bank (NDB) where all relevant data for various socio-religious categories ....