National Commission for Minorities

National Commission for Minorities
NCM
Commission overview
Formed	17 May 1993
Preceding Commission	Minorities Commission 1978;
Jurisdiction	Republic of India
Headquarters	New Delhi,India
Annual budget	₹5,020.50 crore (US$630 million) (2022–23) including Ministry of Minority Affairs
Minister responsible	Smriti Irani;
Deputy Minister responsible	John Barla;
Commission executive	Iqbal Singh Lalpura, Chairman;
Parent Commission	Ministry of Minority Affairs
Website	ncm.nic.in

The Union Government set up the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) under the National Commission for Minorities Act, 1992. Six religious communities, viz; Muslims, Christians, Jains, Sikhs, Buddhists and Zoroastrians (Parsis) have been notified in Gazette of India as minority communities by the Union Government all over India . Original notification of 1993 was for five religious communities; Sikhs, Buddhists, Parsis, Christians and Muslims, later in 2014, Jains community was also added. As per Census 2001, these six communities consists of 18.8% of the country's population.

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