Profile of National Commission for Minorities

National Minorities Rights Day  December 18

Government of India

National Commission for Minorities (NCM)

5th Floor, Lok Nayak Bhawan,

New Delhi-110 003

Phone. No.: 2460 1752 Fax No.: 2469 3302

Five  Religious Communities..!

The Union Government set up the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) under the National Commission for Minorities Act, 1992. Five   religious communities,  viz; Muslims,  Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and  Zoroastrians (Parsis)  have   been   notified   as   minority  communities by the Union Government.

Further vide notification detail 27th Jan 2014, Jains have also been notified as minority community.

The Commission  has one Chairperson and six (6)  Members represented 5 minority communities.

At present Chairperson is ர். Naseem Ahmad and the post of Vice Chairperson is vacant.

Dr. Ajaib Singh, Shri Tsering Namgyal Shanoo,  Prof. Farida Abdulla Khan, Ms. Mabel Rebello, Capt. Praveen Davar and  Sh. Dadi E. Mistry are the present Members.

Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chattisgarh, Delhi, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Manipur, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh & West Bengal have also set up State Minorities Commissions in their respective States. 

Their offices are located in the State capitals. The functions of these Commissions, inter-alia, are to safeguard and protect the interests of minorities provided in the Constitution and laws enacted by Parliament & the State Legislatures.

Aggrieved persons belonging to the minority communities may approach the concerned State Minorities Commissions for redressal of their grievances. 

They may also send their representations, to the National Commission for Minorities, after exhausting all remedies available to them.  Complaints taken up by the Commission are featured on its website http://www.ncm.nic.in 

National Commission for Minorities

5th Floor, Lok Nayak Bhavan,

Khan MARKET, New Delhi 110 003

Tel: 2461 5583 Fax: 2469 3302, 2464 2645, 2469 8410

Toll Free Number: 1800 110 088

E-mail: ro-ncm@nic.in

http://ncm.nic.in

The Member – Secretary.

Tamil Nadu State Minorities Commission,

735 Anna Salai. L.L.A. Building,

3rd Floor Chennai – 600 002.

Phone No. 044 – 28510303.

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