& Justice for Welfare, Maharashtra celebrated December 18 as Minority
Rights Day across the state and organized different activities to aware people
regarding various legal and constitutional rights provisioned by the Government
of India for the welfare of minority communities of the country. In fact, December
18 has been declared to be the Minority day by the National Commission for
Minorities. It is to be mentioned here that, that the United nations organization
adopted the declaration on the Rights of Persons belonging to National or
Ethnic National or and Linguistic Minorities on this day in 1992. The UN declaration on minority states that:
“States shall protect the existence of the national or ethnic, cultural,
religious and linguistic identity of minorities within their respective
territories and encourage conditions for the promotions of that identity”.
rights are concerned, there is nothing special about it. These are simply normal
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ethnic, religious, linguistic or sexual minorities etc;
and at the same time, these
are also the collective rights accorded to minority groups. The MPJ organized signature campaign to aware
people of their individual and collective rights and submitted memorandum to
the government authorities for the proper implementation of various welfare
schemes launched by the government targeting minority communities of the
country. The media was also engaged to highlight the plight of minority
communities. Several newspapers carried the news reports on the sorry state of
minorities and non-implementation or poor implementation of the minority
welfare schemes in the state of Maharashtra. MPJ collected vital information on
the issue through RTI and shared this information with the media to sensitize
stakeholders. Muhammad Siraj, State President of the MPJ was also interviewed
by the ETV Urdu yesterday on the minority issues.