Ministry of Minority Affairs

Ministry of Minority Affairs
	Branch of Government of India
	Ministry of Minority Affairs
Agency overview
Formed	29 January 2006
Jurisdiction	Government of India
Headquarters	New Delhi 110084
Annual budget	₹3,097.10 crore (US$370 million) (2023-24 est.) including National Commission for Minorities
Minister responsible	Kiren Rijiju, Minister of Minority Affairs;
Deputy Minister responsible	George Kurian, Minister of State;
Child agency	National Commission for Minorities;
Website	www.minorityaffairs.gov.in

The Ministry of Minority Affairs is the ministry in the Government of India which was carved out of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment and created on 29 January 2006. It is the apex body for the central government's regulatory and developmental programmes for the minority religious communities and minority linguistic communities in India, which include Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, Buddhists, Zoroastrians (Parsis) and Jains notified as minority religious communities in The Gazette of India^[2] under Section 2(c) of the National Commission for Minorities Act, 1992.^[3]

The current minister is Kiren Rijiju who has been in office since 10 June 2024, and the Minister of State is George Kurian (since June 2024).

^ "MINISTRY OF MINORITY AFFAIRS : DEMAND NO. 66" (PDF). Indiabudget.gov.in. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
^ "Extraordinary Gazette of India Notification" (PDF). egazette.nic.in. Govt. of India. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
^ "Ministry Of Minority Affairs" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 September 2010.

[1] "MINISTRY OF MINORITY AFFAIRS : DEMAND NO. 66" (PDF). Indiabudget.gov.in. Retrieved 15 September 2018.

[2] "Extraordinary Gazette of India Notification" (PDF). egazette.nic.in. Govt. of India. Retrieved 10 October 2016.

[:0-3] "Ministry Of Minority Affairs" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 September 2010.

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