Sachar Committee Report - Social, Economic and Educational Status of the Muslim Community of India

The Rajinder Sachar Committee is a report on the contemporary status of Muslims in India which was commissioned in 2005 by the then Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh.

In 2004, the Congress Party returned to power in India after having languished in opposition for eight years, an unprecedented length of time for a party which had ruled the country for fifty-two out of fifty-seven years between 1947 and 2004. It returned to power as head of a coalition, winning no more than 141/543 seats in the Lok Sabha; the Bharatiya Janata Party, which lost that election, won 138/543 seats, only three seats less than the Congress Party. The victory of the Congress Party was widely attributed to the Muslim vote. One of its initiatives in this direction was the commissioning of a report on the latest social, economic, and educational conditions of the Muslim community of India.