Jains in Gujarat may get minority status by July end

June 30, 2015 19:59

Jain community members living in the BJP-ruled Gujarat are set to get the minority status by end of next month, Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Ramanlal Vora said here today.

Though Union ministry of minority affairs in erstwhile Congress-led UPA government had accorded the minority status to Jains through a notification in January 2014, the state government is yet to do the same. "The earlier Central government had given the minority status to Jains.

Now, the state government has initiated the process to notify Jain community as minority in Gujarat. We are taking this matter very positively and recently held a meeting in this regard," the minister said.

Vora said his ministry will conduct a few more meetings soon to finalise various aspects of the move. "I believe that a positive decision in this regard will be taken by July-end," he added.

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