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| Sachar panel report poses a challenge | | Cabinet Secretariat sets Ministries thinking anew | | BL KAK
NEW DELHI, FEB 13 In a significant--yet secret--development, the Cabinet Secretariat has dashed off a letter to all concerned Ministries, asking them not to announce any policy or programme on the Sacher Panel recomendations. According to knowledgeable sources, the leter was shot off last week--days before the conference of economic editors on social issues in New Delhi.
The conference was also attended by representatives from the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry. According to observers, the apparent intention was to restrain the HRD Ministry from making any policy announcement during the conference.
MA Fatmi, Minister of State in the HRD Ministry, has been focussing on the task at hand, which is to look at ways to implement the Sachar panel recomendations because that is what the HRD Minister, Arjun Singh, has asked him to do. But indivdual, uncoordinated efforts to get going on this politically sensitive report have not gone down well with the Prime Minister's Office (PMO).
No wonder, the Cabinet Secretariat's letter to all concerned Ministries to scrupulously avoid making announcements of any policy or programme on the Sachar panel recommendations. The letter has made it clear that the Minority Affairs Ministry is the nodal agency to implement the Sachar Committee recommendations.
The letter has also made it plain that while all the views will have to be channelled through the Minority affairs Ministry, an overall view would be taken only later. The message is clear-- it is a political agenda, which will be handled at the topmost level.
The government is likely to table an action taken report in the Sachar Committee recommendations during the upcoming budget session of Parliament and now the effort obviously seems to be to restrain individuals from setting their own agenda on the issue.
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