Rangnath Mishra Commission

National Commission for Religious and Linguistic Minorities:- 

• Headed by former Chief Justice of India, Rangnath Mishra.
• Commission recommended de-linking of Scheduled Caste status from religion and abrogation of the 1950 Scheduled Caste Order which "still excludes Muslims, Christians, Jains and Parsis from the SC net". The 1950 Order originally restricted the SC status to Hindus only but was later opened it to Buddhists and Sikhs.
• Commission has recommended 10 per cent reservation for Muslims and five per cent for other minorities in government jobs. In case of non-availability of Muslims to fill the 10 per cent earmarked seats, these may be made available to other minorities but in "no case" shall any seat within the recommended 15 per cent shall be given to anybody from the majority community.
• Commission favored Scheduled Caste status for Dalits in all religions.
• The Commission also suggested an alternative route for reservation to minorities if there is "insurmountable difficulty" in implementing the recommendation for 15 reservation.
• In this regard it said since minorities constitute 8.4 percent of the total OBC population according to the Mandal Commission report so in the 27 percent OBC quota, an 8.4 percent sub quota should be earmarked for minorities.
• The internal break-up should be 6 percent for the Muslims, commensurate with their 73 percent share in the total minority population at the national level and 2.4 percent for other minorities.

P.S :-

1. At present, there are 21 Muslim groups like Ansari and Ganchi in the government’s list of OBCs.
2. OBCs make up 40.7% of total Muslims and comprise 15.7% of the overall OBC population.