While you were sleeping…

From a link that I stumbled upon during a lazy Sunday evening…

The UPA has gone a step ahead by clearing the decks for a National Data Base (NDB).The NDB will be a central body storing and disseminating all data of all of India’s socio-religious categories. The agency will thus be to all socio-religious groups what the Sachar Commission has been to Muslims. The decision to form the NDB—which may easily be called termed as UPA II’s ultimate political carrot dangled before the minorities—was taken at the highest level, including the prime minister, Sonia Gandhi, Khurshid and Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) Srikant Kumar Jena.

The NDB, the ‘largest repository of all data banks,’ will have the minutest details of all Socio Religious Categories  (SRCs), including their social, economic and educational status, details of employment, credit flow and participation in welfare schemes.

But the killer line is this:

The NDB’s primary aim would be “to address specifically the data requirements for creating policies and programmes relating to the development of religious minorities like Christians and Muslims,” says a draft note.

Don’t expect any outrage. No “Face the Nation”.  No “Buck Stops Here”. No “Breaking News”. No Scoops..No News Hour. Just a deathly silence…as India continues to bleed through a thousand cuts…

Also read: Communal Reservations via the back door? and Dividing India: one bit at a time.