Rights of Minority Institutions

Rights of Minority Institutions
By Andalib Akhter
New Delhi:
After prolonged and heated debates, the Lok Sabha, finally passed the Bill for the establishment of the ‘National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions’. Opposing the Bill, the main opposition party, the BJP, walked out during the voting.The Bill enables the creation of a National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions, It creates the right of minority educational institutions to seek recognition as an affiliated college to a Scheduled University, notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force and it allows for a forum of dispute resolution in the form of a Statutory Commission regarding matters of affiliation between a minority educational institution and a Scheduled University Speaking to this correspondent, the Human Resources Development Minister Arjun Singh said that the Bill would provide direct affiliation for minority professional institutions to Central Universities. Asaduddin Owaisi of Ithahadul Muslemin said that this was the first serious attempt made in the last 15 years for the implementation of a fundamental right provided in Article 30.