A community behind the curve

With resources more scarce than ever, it is vital the government implemented the Sachar Committee's recommendations in earnest

On the Covid quarantine reading list I made —books in the order in which they were to be taken on — was a government report. Published in 2006, it was written by the Prime Minister’s High-Level Committee on the Social, Economic and Educational Status of Muslims in India. Commissioned by Manmohan Singh in March 2005, the report was put out in a year, which must be a record in India where commissions, and especially “high-level” ones, are a sinecure that rarely finish their work and are usually associated with the word “extension”.

This report was put together by seven individuals, all