{"id":42044,"date":"2019-02-15T20:02:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T14:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=42044"},"modified":"2019-02-15T20:02:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T14:32:36","slug":"ncm-sets-up-new-panel-to-define-minority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ncm-sets-up-new-panel-to-define-minority\/","title":{"rendered":"NCM sets up new panel to define minority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/politics-and-nation\/supreme-court-directs-ncm-to-decided-on-representation-seeking-definition-of-term-minority\/articleshow\/67939128.cms\">NCM sets up new panel to define minority<\/a><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The National Commission for Minorities has constituted a new sub-committee. The committee is entrusted with the task of preparing a report to provide a) comprehensive definition of minority and b) criteria for determining minority status of a community. The National Commission for Minorities (NCM) is a statutory body established under the National Commission for Minorities Act, 1992. It functions to safeguard the rights and interests of minority communities in India.<\/li>\n<li>The constitution of the sub-committee comes in the backdrop of recent Supreme Court direction to NCM on defining minority in the context of state-wise population of a community.<\/li>\n<li>The direction came over a plea seeking minority status for Hindus in 7 states and 1 UT. According to 2011 census, the Hindus are minority in Lakshadweep, Mizoram, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Jammu and Kashmir, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, and Punjab.<\/li>\n<li>At present, minority status is granted to Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, Sikhs, Parsis and Jains.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCM sets up new panel to define minority The National Commission for Minorities has constituted a new sub-committee. The committee is entrusted with the task of preparing a report to provide a) comprehensive definition of minority and b) criteria for determining minority status of a community. The National Commission for Minorities (NCM) is a statutory&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ncm-sets-up-new-panel-to-define-minority\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NCM sets up new panel to define minority<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704912870},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}