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The Kerala authorities has expeditiously completed the indispensable steps for implementing the recommendations of the J.B. Koshy Commission that tin beryllium implemented nether the existing laws, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has said. The commission, appointed connected November 5, 2020 to survey the educational, economical and payment issues of Christian minorities successful the State, submitted its study to the State authorities successful May 2023.
Addressing a property league present connected Thursday (January 8, 2025), Mr. Vijayan said that the remaining recommendations tin beryllium implemented lone by amending the State oregon Central laws, tribunal orders oregon by obtaining consent from assorted departments. Instructions person been issued to instrumentality speedy decisions connected the issues that request to beryllium discussed with different departments and instrumentality the recommendations, helium said. He alleged that determination person been definite misleading media reports astir the implementation of the recommendations.
Earlier this week, Mr. Vijayan had chaired a gathering to reappraisal the advancement made successful implementing the recommendations. The State authorities has considered 284 recommendations and 45 sub-recommendations submitted by the commission. Seventeen departments person afloat implemented the recommendations, portion enactment has been taken connected 220 recommendations and sub-recommendations.
He said that the authorities has held respective rounds of meetings implicit the past twelvemonth to guarantee speedy implementation of the recommendations. The Chief Secretary and the heads of departments person met 5 times to sermon the issue. Several meetings person besides been held astatine the Secretary level of the Minority Welfare Department to reappraisal the progress.
“The authorities has taken each imaginable steps successful this regard. The Chief Secretary volition seat a gathering of the secretaries to instrumentality steps to implicit the consequent steps astatine the earliest. There is nary origin for interest successful this regard. A gathering of the assorted stakeholders volition beryllium held connected February 6 astatine the Chief Minister’s Conference Hall to determine connected further steps,” helium said.
