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As the cardinal posts successful the Uttar Pradesh Commission for Minorities person remained vacant for astir 18 months, critics alleged that the prolonged vacency raises concerns astir organization functioning and entree to justness for each number communities.
They further accidental that galore cardinal posts are vacant successful different authorities bodies related to minorities including the Madrasa board.
“The prolonged vacancy successful the Uttar Pradesh Commission for Minorities — implicit 18 months — people raises concerns astir organization functionality and entree to justness for each number communities. In immoderate law democracy, commissions similar these play an important relation successful addressing grievances, monitoring rights protections, advising governments connected payment issues and serving arsenic a span betwixt citizens and the administration. When specified bodies stay non functional for extended periods, it affects not lone 1 assemblage but the credibility of governance itself,” said Nasser Salim, spokesperson the Samajwadi Party.
The Congress alleged that it was a calculated determination to deprive the minorities successful the State, chiefly Muslims, from entree to immoderate redressal mechanics for their grievances and complaints.
“A assemblage similar minorities committee is simply a captious level wherever radical from number sections rise matters of atrocities and precocious handedness done by authorities. But, successful U.P. the mode cardinal posts successful the committee remains vacant highlights that a calculated determination is astatine play to deprive minorities chiefly Muslims entree to redressal of complaints and springiness a escaped tally to bulldoze number rights,” said Shahnawaz Alam, nationalist secretary, the Congress.
In 1994, the Uttar Pradesh Minority Commission Act-1994 was notified for giving statutory presumption to the Uttar Pradesh Commission for Minorities. The Uttar Pradesh Minority Commission Act-1994 (as amended by Act-2013) provided for 1 Chairman and 8 members from among the minorities successful the Commission. The word of bureau of the Chairman/Members of the Commission is fixed astatine 3 years. Under the section-2(c) of Uttar Pradesh Minority Commission Act-1994 Muslim, Sikh, Christians, Buddhist, Parsi and Jain assemblage is notified arsenic a number assemblage successful Uttar Pradesh.
The past Commission was appointed successful June 2021 and its word ended successful June 2024 aft which the posts person remained vacant.
