Recently, government has replied to a question on definition of minority.
Definition of minority:
Central Government notifies minority communities at the national level in consultation with various stakeholders under Section 2 (c) of National Commission for Minorities (NCM), Act, 1992.
The six communities notified as minority communities under Section 2(c) of the NCM Act, 1992 are Christians, Sikhs, Muslims, Buddhists, Parsis and Jains.
Notification of any community specific to a State as minority community with in a State comes under the purview of the State concerned.
Linguistic Minority:
The Article 29 and 30 of the Constitution provide for protection of interest of minorities which includes linguistic minorities also.
Linguistic Minorities are group or collectivities of individuals residing in the territory of India or any part thereof having a distinct language or script of their own.
The language of the minority group need not be one of the twenty two languages mentioned in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution.
The Government has already enacted the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) Act, 1992 to constitute a National Commission for Minorities.
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