Complaints Received by National Commission for Minorities from Various Minority Communities

The details of the complaints received by National Commission for Minorities (NCM) during 2018-2019, 2019-2020 & 2020-2021  are at Annexure-I & II.

As per NCM rules, regulations and procedures, National Commission for Minorities on receipt of complaints either calls for report from the concerned authority and summons them, if necessary, and thereafter makes suitable recommendations or forward the complaints to the appropriate authority(s) for taking necessary action. The complaints concluded as propaganda, false, frivolous, and anonymous are closed with the approval of competent authority. During the above period, the NCM has conducted 44, 51 and 20 number of hearings respectively in 2018-19; 19-20; 20-21 to enquire whether the complaints were genuine or false.

Annexure-I

Year	Muslims	Christians	Sikhs	Jains	Buddhists	Parsis	Others	Total
2018-19	1344	136	161	63	46	3	118	1871
2019-20	1232	129	106	51	43	5	104	1670
2020-21	1103	103	99	50	28	2	78	1463
2021-22 (as on 22.11.2021)	864	88	115	39	35	5	88	1234

Annexure-II

Nature of complaint	2018-19	2019-20	2020-21
Land Disputes	–	–	119
Service Matters	149	106	100
Complaint against Police Official	–	–	83
Educational Matters	82	61	49
Complaint against Govt officials	–	–	37
Economic Matters	12	13	33
Wakf Matters	65	40	28
Religious Rights	82	40	24
Complaint Against Admini- stration	–	–	20
Complaints on communal violence	–	–	05
Cultural Rights	1	–	03
Hate Crime	–	–	–
Law &Order Matter	1040	1019	449
Other routine complaints	440	391	513
Total	1871	1670	1463

This information was given by the Union Minister for Minority Affairs Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today.

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