Ex-Union minister Vijay Sampla is NCSC chairman

NEW DELHI: Former Union minister Vijay Sampla took charge as the chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) on Wednesday and said he would adopt a "three-tier priority to resolve all the issues being faced by the Dalit community". Sampla is counted amongst the prominent Dalit faces of the BJP in Punjab. "It is a matter of pride for me that the Union government has assigned such an important responsibility to me," he told reporters.