DIBRUGARH, April 11 � Several religious minority organizations have welcomed Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi�s proposal to constitute Assam Indigenous Religious Minorities Development Council exclusively for indigenous national religious minority communities such as Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Budhists and Parsees by excluding the Muslim minority community in Muslim minority concentrated thirteen districts in lower Assam who are covered by Multi Sectoral Development Programme (MSDP) under Sachar Committee report.
The minority groups which include Assam Buddhist Minority Welfare Society, Ahom Buddhist (Phralung) Sangha, All Bodo Christians Association, All Assam Indigenous Religious Minorities Council, Assam Sikh Kalyan Parishad and Minorities Education and Development Board, have expressed gratitude to the UPA leadership under whose blessings, the minority groups said Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi considered the long-standing demand for multi-sectoral development also for indigenous national religious minority communities.
The organizations requested that the proposed development council have appointments or nomination of members from all indigenous religious minority communities. They also sought steps for providing quality education to all religious minority communities under the proposed development council.
The organizations also called upon Gogoi to set up a Central Minorities University in Upper Assam to cater to the academic needs of all religious minority communities of all states in NE.