December 18, 2009 7:46 PM

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Minority students to get hundred per cent scholarship from 2010: Govt.

The Center today said that Minority students will get hundred per cent scholarship from next year. Speaking on the occasion of Minorities Rights' Day today in New Delhi the Minority Affairs Minister Mr. Salman Khurshid said that the scholarship scheme for the Minority students is being reviewed to ensure that none of the qualified students are kept out of its ambit. He mentioned that the developmental programmes launched by the Government, persuant to Sachar Committee recommendations, will be geared up and its impact will be known from next year.<br/> <br/> Mr. Khurshid said that the Equal Opporunity commission will not in any way undermine and dilute the role of the National Commission for Minorities. He said that the attempt is to bring convergence of various Commissions. Our correspondent reports that the Minister placed the Rangnath Mishra Commission report on affermative action for Minorities in Lok Sabha today.<br/> <br/> AIR correspondent Manikant Thakur reports : Though the Minority affairs Minister has ruled out any action taken report on Rangnath Mishra commission reccomendation for fifteen per cent reservation for Minorities, the heat and dust on quota within quota is yet to settle. The Commission has recommended 10 per cent reservation for Muslims and five per cent for other minorities in government jobs and favoured Scheduled Caste status for Dalits in all religions. Dismissing the dissent note by the member secretary Asha Das on the the Commission's recommendation for conferment of SC status on Dalit converts to Christianity and Islam saying there was no justification for it, the Commission also suggests delinking of Scheduled Caste status from religion and abrogation of the 1950 Scheduled Caste Order which still excludes Muslims, Christians, Jains and Parsis from the Scheduled cast Category. The Commission also suggests an alternative route for reservation to minorities . It says since minorities constitute 8.4 percent of the total OBC population according to the Mandal Commission report, so in the 27 percent OBC quota, an 8.4 percent sub quota should be earmarked for minorities.<br/>

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