Muslim bodies call for implementation of UPA's welfare promises

New Delhi, Jul 30 (UNI) Several Muslim organisations today flayed the Centre for ''tardy implementation'' of the recommendations of both the Ranganath Mishra Commission and the Sachar Committee and demanded an in depth discussion on the problems of the community in the coming session of Parliament.

Calling upon the Muslim community and other secular forces to work together, the organisations under the umbrella of Joint Committee of Muslim Organisations for Empowerment, said none of the recommendations of the two bodies have been implemented adequately or expeditiously with the urgency they deserve. ''The budget for 2006-07 did not reflect the Prime Minister's 15-point programme for the Welfare of the Minorities or the Sachar Committee recommendations,'' the JCMOE said in a statement.

''Now that the UPA government has completed more than three years, there is growing disappointment and frustration in the minorities, particularly. Muslims they comprise 6 per cent of the total population and its backwardness impedes the overall progress of the country,'' it said.

Stressing that peaceful mobilsation can only help the cause of the community, they said it was necessary to build a national consensus for urgent and effectve line of action to raise the economic and educational status of the Community.

The organisations that have come forward to press for the demands are Jamaat Ulema Hind, Jamaat Islam-e-Hind, the All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat, the All India Milli Council and others.

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