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27-July, 2012 15:09 IST Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities Presents the 48th Report on Linguistic Minorities to Shri Salman Khurshid Salman Khurshid, Minister for Minority Affairs   Dr. Nandlal Jotwani, Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities presented the 48th Report of the Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities to Shri Salman Khurshid, Minister for Minority Affairs, here today at Paryavaran Bhawan in the presence of Shri Vincent H. Pala, Minister of State for Minority Affairs, Dr. Surajit Mitra, Secretary, Ministry of Minority Affairs, and other senior officers of the Ministry. The Report will now be presented to the President of India, who then causes the Report to be laid in both the Houses of the Parliament.  The 48th Report covers the period from July 2010 to June 2011 and critically reviews the status of implementation of the Scheme of Safeguards for the linguistic minorities in all the States and Union Territories of the country vis-à-vis Action Ta...

News & Views RK Rishikesh Sinha The 21 st century has brought people of minority speaking community to think, compare, and analyze their community in terms of many modern parameters, and consequently they are moulding themselves to their individual choices and preferences. They are impatient and fearful for being from minority community in the midst of many pull and push of the modern time. In nutshell, people are questioning and they are making their own conclusions. And they are finding their own ways to preserve their unique socio-cultural and linguistic identity. But why people raise questions on their community? Why so much scrutiny about the community they belong to? Is it mere curiosity? Or it is a pre-planned question being implanted decades ago by our socio-politico surroundings? Self-doubt, low esteem about ones identity should not arise. In contrast, there should not be any eulogizing about ones community either. The state of the people should be ...