National Commission for Minorities: Constitution, Role and Responsibilities

Mumbai is a city of communities: Parsis, Sikhs, Christians, Muslims, Jains and Buddhists all run schools, fire temples, churches and trusts here, and a Marathi speaker in another State is herself part of a language minority. The Constitution promises such groups the right to protect their language, script and culture and to run educational institutions of their choice. But who checks whether those promises are working? That is the job of the National Commission for Minorities, and it is why the topic sits in a human rights paper.

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The National Commission for Minorities is a statutory body created by the National Commission for Minorities Act 1992 to evaluate, monitor and advise on the safeguards for religious minorities; it works alongside the constitutional protection in Articles 29 and 30.

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