Who is the current Chairperson of National Minorities Commission?
Iqbal Singh Lalpura
2024 January
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The Union Government set up the National Commission for Minorities under the National Commission for Minorities Act, 1992. Six religious communities, viz; Muslims, Christians, Jains, Sikhs, Buddhists and Zoroastrians (Parsis) have been notified in Gazette of India as minority communities by the Union Government all over India .[2] Original notification of 1993 was for five religious communities; Sikhs, Buddhists, Parsis, Christians and Muslims, later in 2014, Jains community was also added.As per Census 2001, these six communities consists of 18.8% of the country's population