Multiple choice general knowledge

To provide reservation to backward sections among minorities, recently Union Minister for Minority Affairs Salman Khursheed said that govt. of putting into action the recommendations of which of the following committees?

  1. Sachar Committee

  2. Tarapore Committee

  3. Mistry Committee

  4. Bachavat Committee
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Explanation

The Sachar Committee (2005) was constituted to assess the social, economic, and educational status of Muslims in India and recommend measures for their welfare. Salman Khurshid, as Minority Affairs Minister, advocated implementing its recommendations including reservations. The other committees listed are unrelated - Tarapore (capital account convertibility), and the others are fictitious or unrelated to minority affairs.

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The reservation for socially/economically backward sections among religious and linguistic minorities was recommended by the National Commission for Religious and Linguistic Minorities, headed by Justice Ranganath Mishra (the 'Ranganath Mishra Commission'), which submitted its report in 2007 and was tabled in the Lok Sabha by Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid in December 2009. It recommended 15% overall reservation for minorities (10% for Muslims, 5% for other minorities) in government jobs and education, with an OBC-route fallback if direct implementation proved difficult — the exact 'backward sections among minorities' reservation Khurshid referenced. The Sachar Committee (marked correct in the DB) was a separate 2005 body that only surveyed the socio-economic status of Muslims and made no reservation recommendation. None of the four listed options (Sachar, Tarapore, Mistry, Bachawat) is the Ranganath Mishra Commission, so no option in the answer set is actually correct.

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