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NCM forms committee
December 8 , 2017
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- The National Commission for Minorities (NCM) has set up three-member committee to study the matter to give minority status to Hindus in 8 states where their population is less than 50%.
- The committee will be led by NCM’s Vice Chairman George Kurien and will be assisted by NCM additional secretary Ajay Kumar. It has been given three months to submit its report.
- According to 2011 Census, Hindus are in monitory in eight states — Lakshadweep, Mizoram, Nagaland, Meghalaya, J&K, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, and Punjab.
- Hindus in these states are being deprived of their basic rights, guaranteed under Articles 25 to 30 because neither central nor state governments have notified Hindus as a ‘minority’ under Section 2(c) of National Commission for Minority Act.
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