SECULARISM.......

 Rajinder Sachar Committee have pledged for the reservation of Muslim Community. They have highlighted the condition of 86% Muslims' income level not exceeding than Rs. 20/- a day, while Ranganath Misra Commission have also exhorted for the same. It seems to be imperative for any sensitive government to implement this provision without any loss of time, but the matter needs to be a great concern to be contemplated. Our constitution always balks at every kind of discrimination. Exclusion from the fruit of development is also a form of discrimination. But poverty and deprivation are completely secular concepts where must not be any religious bearing. If somebody is getting deprived of social development or is not allowed to partake of the benefits from constitutional aspect, it must be considered as a legal flaw but not the religious one. Irrespective of any particular religion, caste or creed we need to uplift, upgrade pr help the people who are socially, economically or educationally backward so far in the nation. Making reservation is only a divisive approach and for the reserved quota, it will only create more dependence upon the government. There are so much slackness existing in the nation to implement the policies, regulations which only remain sound on paper. There are lack of co-ordination amongst the different agencies, while overlapping mandates, policy gaps which need to be bridged. There is acute governance failure in several areas of public service delivery. So, the private actors, private players, and civil society must come forward, shouldering some responsibility in order order to achieve zero tolerance towards corruption and to avoid the pervasiveness of the phenomenon to uplift the backward class. Trying to make a particular religion as a ground for the targeted intervention will be going against the principle of secularism which is already enshrined in the constitution.