Sir, now coming to the provisions of the Bill I would like to submit that all the amendments are good except that aspect that amendment which stipulates doing away with consultations. I can understand the difficulty of the Government. Probably, many States are putting a hindrance and the Government wants to get out of that kind of a situation. This is another aspect that in the name of minority, using the name of minority education is being successfully made into a big industry by certain people. Since we are discussing an issue relating to minority education, how can the Government ignore this? This fact cannot be ignored. If I remember correctly, in the original Bill neither consultation nor consent was there. After a long discussion the Government agreed to the idea that consultation could be introduced. That does not mean that if consultation and consent are there, that is a different thing. We are not asking for inclusion of consent, but consultation is a democratic process. You may go out and discuss your private matters. Do not interrupt. It is not a place for whispering. Sir, there has been no programme to deal with the situation. It is being taken as an inevitable concomitance of global meltdown. The Government need not have its policy. It is the market which will correct itself. It is due to market melt-down and if the market revives, the job conditions will revive. The Government is having supreme faith in the automatic market mechanism to bring about an aberration. The point is, when tsunami had hit the country yes, I am comparing it with tsunami the Government had set up a damage control mechanism, control room, to take care of the human distress. When the economic tsunami has hit the country, there is no whisper.
