MUSLIM ORGANIZATIONS
All India Milli Council: Memorandum to
Prime Minister, 1 June, 1996
TADA
All cases under TADA be either withdrawn or due legislative process be adopted to achieve that end. Communal and Ethnic Rights.
A cash compensation equal to that given in case of the death of a passenger in an air crash is suggested and to the injured commensurate with the nature and extent of the injury sustained.
Further, in matter of relief and rehabilitation and other matters connected therewith the course adopted for the victims of the 1984 Delhi riots be treated as a model and same be applied in all cases of communal and ethnic riots. An Anti-riot force be raised to be manned by personnel with special training and secular mental make- up.
Minorities Commission
It is suggested that all the bottlenecks and handicaps be removed so as to ensure the effective and efficient functioning of the Minorities Commission.
It is further suggested that the United Front Government use its good offices to persuade the State Government of Maharashtra to revive the State's Minorities Commission which it has scrapped. Minorities Finance Corporation Rs. five thousand crores be made available to the Minorities Finance and Development Corporation at an early date. It is further suggested that all loans by Corporation will be advanced on zero rate of interest.
Minority Educational Institutions
It is suggested that a guideline be forwarded to all state governments. Some state governments make the according of recognition dependent on the waiver of right to claim grant-in-aid the well-established principle of aid follows recognition' should be adhered to.
Fifteen-Point Programme
The Fifteen-Point Programme be suitably modified and updated and its effective implementation be ensured.
Education and Economy
Reservation should be provided to Muslims in professional and technical courses in government-run educational institutions. Some relaxation in qualifying standards be granted to Muslim students in above.
Educational institutions on the pattern of ITIs be started in predominantly Muslim localities.
The share of Muslims employment in government and semi-government establishments, government undertakings, statutory corporations are negligible. Measures be devised to rectify the situation. A fair quota for Muslims belonging to backward classes, identified in the Mandal Commission Report be fixed.
The existing list of backward Muslim groups be updated. Separate reservation be provided for those economically backward among Muslims.
Uniform Civil Code
Either Article 44 of the Constitution be deleted All India Milli Council: Annual Conference, 31 August-1 September, 1996 (Resolutions)
On Wakfs
The General Body of the All India Milli Council calls upon the Central Government to issue an ordinance with retrospective effect providing for the extension of the life of the Wakf Boards, formed under the repealed Act, and validating all acts done by these Boards till such time as fresh Boards are constituted under the new Wakfs Act.
Urges the Central Government to start the process of constituting the Wakf Boards under the new Act without further loss of time.
Urges the Central Government to immediately set up a committee to review the Wakf Act and incorporate such amendments as necessary in consultation with the All-India Muslim Personal Law Board.
Calls upon all State Governments to allocate a sum of Rupees One Hundred crores each, at the minimum, as a permanent corpus with the purpose of advancing interest-free loans for the development of Wakf properties.
The General Body notes with regret that in spite of the fact that the CID identified the police officials - officers as well as constables - who were found directly involved in the wanton and cold-blooded murder of Muslims in Hashimpura and Maliana (Meerut UP) and recommended their prosecution. The Criminals in uniform are being shielded which in other words amounts to condoning state-terrorism.
27 PAC men and 39 police and District officials have been held responsible. The General Body demands. that appropriate action should forthwith be taken against all persons identified in the report.
The Milli Council opposes the demand for repeal of Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act. 1983.
The Milli Council, while reiterating its commitment to have an electoral roll free from foreigner's names, demands that while revising electoral rolls in future all documentary and other evidences admissible under the Indian Evidence Act be accepted and the names of all Indian Citizen be included in the voters' list without any bias and bungling
The Milli Council urges upon the Government to Bodo extremists and rehabilitate the refugees in any provide adequate compensation to the victims of the secure place.
altogether or, in the alternative, a proviso be added to the said Article that all those communities who express their wish for it shall stand exempted from the ambit of Article 44.
Urdu
Recommendations made in the Gujral Committee Report on Urdu language be implemented.
