{"id":89514,"date":"2019-02-15T17:18:24","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T11:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=638"},"modified":"2019-02-15T17:18:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T11:48:24","slug":"ncm-sets-up-new-panel-to-define-minority-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ncm-sets-up-new-panel-to-define-minority-2\/","title":{"rendered":"NCM sets up new panel to define minority"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><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><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.\u00a0<\/li><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><li>At present, minority status is granted to Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, Sikhs, Parsis and Jains.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ncm-sets-up-new-panel-to-define-minority-2\/\">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":[1234],"tags":[1810,6962],"class_list":["post-89514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-current-affairs","tag-minorities","tag-national-commission-for-minorities","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704792986},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89514","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=89514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}