The Former IPS officer Iqbal Singh Lalpura has been chosen as chairman of National Commission for Minorities.
The last chairperson of the commission was Syed Ghayorul Hasan Rizvi.
It has been setup under the National Commission for Minorities Act, 1992.
Six religious’ communities, viz; Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Zoroastrians (Parsis) and Jains have been notified as minority communities in India.
In 2014, Jains were the last to be notified as a minority community.