Hon'ble Shri Arjun Singh has provided for in this Bill conferment of certain rights. A Minority Institution can be started if there is no response within 60 days to the application filed for obtaining No Objection Certificate for approval from the State Government. I would like to point out that this UPA Government headed by Dr. Manmohan Singh and led by Smt. Sonia Gandhi have great concern for the minorities. I would like to point out that minorities have not forgotten the injustice meted out to them during the previous NDA regime. Minorities have been put to many sufferings in many riots. There are thousands of men in the civil services as IAS and IPS Officers. How many of them are from the Minority Community? How many of the IPS Officers belong the Islamic Community? They are very limited in number and easily countable. This Bill shows the concern this Government has for the minorities. Not only this Government has got concern for the minorities and the under privileged sections of the society even our other leaders have shown it. Especially our young leader Rahul Gandhi makes it a point to visit the Scheduled Tribe people and try to learn from them their problems. I would like to ask of you whether the rulers in the previous regime have done anything like that. The rights of the Minority Community must be protected. I would like to request this Government to see that the National Commission for Minority Education Institutions gets some more powers and gain an enhanced status. It should definitely be investigated by the Government whether the institutions that are run in the name of minorities are run by the minorities. You have to probe it in the larger interest of the minorities of this country. We are deprived, and the minorities.
