Dehradun: The problems of minorities will once again be discussed in the Uttarakhand Minority Commission. For a long time, the posts of Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Member have been vacant in the commission. In such a situation, now the government has distributed responsibilities on the posts of 7 members.
Responsibilities have been distributed on the posts of seven members in the Uttarakhand Minority Commission. There was a long effort for this but now Secretary Minority Welfare Dhiraj Singh has issued an order on this. With this order, appointment has been made to the vacant member posts. The tenure of the nominated members will be 5 years from the date of assuming office.
The members who have been given responsibility in the Uttarakhand Minority Commission include Farzana Begum as a female member from the Muslim community, Jagjit Singh Jagga of Udham Singh Nagar from the Sikh community, Gagandeep Singh Bedi of Rishikesh, Surendra Jain of Udham Singh Nagar from the Jain community, Yeshi Thuptan of Nainital from the Buddhist community, Nafees Ahmed of Dehradun from the Muslim community and Shakeel Ansari of Champawat have been given the responsibility of members.
The special thing is that the posts of chairman, vice-chairman and members were lying vacant in the Uttarakhand Minority Commission for a long time. Apart from the chairman, there are posts of two vice-chairman and seven members in the commission. Meetings related to solutions to the problems of minorities have not been held in the commission since 28 August 2024. This is because neither the chairman nor the vice-chairman and members were present for the meeting in the commission. Earlier, the post of chairman in the commission has been vacant since 23 December 2023. Similarly, the post of a vice-chairman became vacant on 9 March 2024.
On 29 August 2024, the post of second vice-chairman also became vacant. Since then, necessary meetings are not being held in the commission. Now the government has distributed responsibilities on the posts of 7 members. Now soon responsibilities can be given on the posts of chairman and vice-chairman as well. To run the work in the commission, meetings can be held by giving charge of chairman to any member.
