Issue 1: Representation of Minority Groups in the Parliament
Issue 1: Representation of Minority Groups in the Parliament
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Recommendation 2: Create an online platform to surface issues pertaining to the Indian Community( Bottom up approach)
• Members of the public often use social media platforms like Facebook to voice out a lot of their concerns pertaining to them and their community. While this platform may be useful in finding out about people’ s concerns on the ground, there are too many posts for leaders of the parliament to look through on such social media platforms, also keeping in mind the fact that many such posts by the public may be mere rants, rather than constructive feedback.
• Hence, what we propose is to create a Facebook page where members of the public can voice their concerns. A separate website can host some of the selected concerns of the Indian community so that the parliamentary leaders can refer to this website to gain insight about people’ s concerns on the ground.
• For this website, moderators from an authorised Indian organisation( SINDA, Narpani, etc.) will be required. They will be in charge of picking out the constructive feedbacks and issues raised by the public from the Facebook Page, and putting them up on the website for the leaders of the Parliament to have a look at.
• Using an online platform may be cost effective solution, as compared to avenues like collecting feedback through survey forms. However, there might be insufficient manpower from the large organisations who are able to help with the proposed solutions → Can use the help of student leaders from tertiary institutions’ student groups.