National Commission for Minorities

2 notes tagged National Commission for Minorities.

• Polity

  Special Officer for Linguistic Minorities: A Constitutional Body Under Article 350B

  Why Article 350B, born out of the 1956 linguistic reorganisation of states, is the constitutional counterpart to the statutory National Commission for Minorities, not the same body.

• Polity

  National Commission for Minorities: Six Notified Communities, Not Five

  The NCM Act, 1992's composition, and why the notified list of religious minorities grew from five to six in 2014, when Jains were added.