No minority status to education institutions on linguistic basis: HRD

 New Delhi: The HRD Ministry will not grant minority status to any educational institution on linguistic basis, the Parliament was informed on Friday.

"The National Commission for Minorities Educational Institutions (NCMEI) gives the minority status to the educational institutions on the basis of six religious communities notified by the Ministry of HRD under the NCMEI Act, 2004-- Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Zoroastrians (Parsis) and Jains only," 

Minister of State for HRD, Satyapal Singh said in a written reply in Rajya Sabha.
 "Linguistic Minorities do not come under the ambit of the NCMEI Act, 2004. Hence question of empowering any agency to issue minority certificate on linguistic basis does not arise," he added.