Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Aug 7: Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh said here today that history will celebrate the Modi Government’s “social justice” legislations. He said, this has been a unique first week of the month of August when, at the initiative of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Parliament passed two historic legislations, one to set up a Backward Class Commission with Constitutional Status and other to restore back the original provisions of the SC/ST Law which had been modified by a Supreme Court judgment.
Dr Jitendra Singh expressed these views when the Chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes, Nand Kumar Sai, called on him to convey, on his behalf and on the behalf of his entire community, a deep sense of gratitude to the Government for the Amendment bill passed yesterday by the Parliament to restore back the provision of the earlier stringent punishment for atrocities against Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, that had been recently diluted following Supreme Court judgment.
Dr Jitendra Singh said, it was nearly 60 years ago, soon after the independence, that the Ikka Kelkar Committee had recommended the constituting of a Backward Class Commission with Constitutional status. However, he said, the successive Governments led by Congress kept dilly-dallying on this issue and it was finally the Modi Government which has successfully brought through the Parliament a law to establish an OBC Commission with Constitutional status.
Dr Jitendra Singh recalled that Narendra Modi had taken over as Prime Minister four years ago with the pledge to dedicate his government to the upliftment of the poor and weaker sections of the society. He said, looking back over four years later today, the Modi Government has substantially vindicated its pledge through a series of decisions either to bring in new reforms or to enact new legislations.
What would be remembered most, Dr Jitendra Singh said, is that the Modi Government’s social justice reforms were accompanied with the promise of giving social esteem to the deprived and the have-nots.
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