Minorities Rights Day in India

Minorities Rights Day is observed every year on 18th December in India, with the aim that the normal individual rights as applied to members of a class, religious, ethnic, racial, linguistic or gender and sexual minorities are also accorded to minority groups in the country. The objective of the day is to remind about the ..

Category: Important Days & Events Current Affairs

Topics: Buddhists • Christians • Jains • Minorities Rights Day • Muslims • National Commission for Minorities • National Commission for Minorities Act 1992 • Sikhs • Zoroastrians

The Union government launches “Jiyo Parsi Publicity Phase-2” scheme in Maharastra

Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, the Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Minority Affairs & Parliamentary Affairs, has launched “Jiyo Parsi Publicity Phase-2” in Mumbai, Maharashtra under the Jiyo Parsi scheme. The main purpose of the “Jiyo Parsi” scheme (or Central Sector Scheme) is to reverse the declining trend of Parsi population by adopting a scientific ..

Category: Government Schemes Current Affairs

Topics: India • Indian society • Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi • Mumbai • Naqvi • Parsis • Religious identity • States and union territories of India • Zoroastrians