Muslims’ motor rally demands reservation of the community - Manipur Cabinet to meet today
The Cabinet will discuss the proposals of upgradation of Jessami High School to Higher Secondary level, reservation for Muslims and re-convening the 7th session of the state Assembly among other agenda, the source said.
The 7th session of the 9th Manipur Legislative Assembly which would be the budget session is likely to resume from March 8. A decision with regard to a proposal from the state Law and Legislative Affairs will be discussed at the Cabinet meeting tomorrow.
The number of seatings of the assembly session will be decided at a meeting of the Business Advisory Committee of the Assembly after the State Cabinet fixes the date.
It is pertinent to mention here that the State is proposing a plan size of Rs 3231.09 crore against the original approved outlay of Rs 2000 crore annual plan 2009-10 registering an increase of 59.94% to the Planning Commission of India.
The same is yet to be finalized and likely to finalise at a meeting of the working committee of the PCI scheduled to be held on March 15 and 16. The official level meeting on the state annual plan proposal was already held last month.Mention may be made here that the 7th session of the 9th Manipur Legislative Assembly has been adjourned sine die after two day seatings on January 13 and 14 last.
As the Governor has not prorogued the same, the State Law and Legislative Affairs has decided to resume the same.
The Cabinet will also discuss the upgradation of the Jessami High School to the Higher Secondary level, a proposal of the State Education (S) Department to fulfill the long cherished dream of the people of the villages bordering with Nagaland.
Villagers of Jessami and its adjoining areas have been pressing the State government to improve the education scenario of the villages.
Another agenda to be discussed at the meeting is the reservation of seats for Muslims in government appointments and technical studies as government nominees.
Muslim bodies have started a nationwide campaign in this regard in New Delhi recently.
In the state too, the Popular Front of India, Manipur unit organised a rally of the Muslim community at Kwakta in Bishnupur district today showing solidarity to the nationwide campaign with a large number of people participating.
Other agenda of the cabinet meeting include re-designation of the post of the Food Inspectors of the State Health Services as State Food Safety Officer and filling up of vacant posts and appointment of grade-IV posts of the state medical department by relaxing ban on the direct recruitment, and review of the stipends provided to the students of Sainik School, Imphal by the State government.
Source: Hueiyen News Service
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Muslims’ motor rally demands reservation of the community
Source: The Sangai Express
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Imphal, February 21, 2010: Nationwide campaign for Muslims reservation gaining momentum in the state as hundreds took out a motor rally carried out at Moirang in Bishnupur district today showing solidarity to the nationwide campaign.
Meanwhile, council of ministers of the Secular Progressive Front (SPF) government will discuss on the reservation for the Muslim community in the state tomorrow in a cabinet meeting to be chair by the Chief Minister, O Ibobi Singh, an official source said today.
The Popular Front of India, Manipur unit organised the rally of the Muslim community in the state.
It kicked start from Kwakta village and after covering the streets at Moirang, the rally converged at the original place where a meeting was followed by.
Muslim community across the country under the banner of Joint Committee of Muslim Organizations for Empowerment (JCMOE), formed recently for the sole purpose of Muslim reservation, is demanding formal recognition of the Muslim community as a Backward Class in the light of the findings and recommendations of the Sachar Committee and Ranganath Mishra Commission, as already done by some states like Karnataka, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh.
In a leaflet distributed during the rally, the Popular Front of India is urging "immediate publication of the Mishra Commission Report, full implementation of its basic recommendations, namely, 15% reservation for the minorities, with 10% exclusively for the Muslims, along with the unutilized portion of the other 5%, and the deletion of para 3 of the Constitution (SC) Order 1950, issued under Article 341 of the Constitution for the inclusion of Muslim and Christian Dalits in the SC List".
The front said the motor rally organised today is a part of the series of programmes to be launched during the month of February and March.
Speaking at the meeting held at the concluding part of the rally, leaders and representatives of religious organizations and politicians urged that Muslims should be given reservation not as a religious minority but as a backward class.
Muslim community today is demanding reservation as a Backward Class, as a deprived group, who is almost as backward as the SC/ST and more backward than the non-Muslim OBCs, they lamented.
He also demanded definition of Creamy Layer in a realistic manner and its revision every 10 year in order to achieve the real purpose of reservation.
The leaflet also appealed to all secular political parties to exert due pressure on the government for urgent action on the recommendations of the Sachar and Mishra Reports.
