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6 Minorities Can Now Self-Attest Own Community Certificates For Welfare Schemes

[New Delhi]Six Minorities can Now self-attest Own community certificates For Welfare Schemes .
People belonging to minority communities will no longer have to secure certificates from officials to avail of benefits of welfare schemes, with the government making it clear that self-attestation was enough.
Ministry of Minority Affairs. Says “In this context, it is informed that minority certificate is not mandatory for getting the benefits of welfare schemes being implemented by the ministry,”
The government has notified six communities as minorities — Muslims+Christians+Sikhs+Buddhists+Parsis+Jains.
Jain’s inclusion was notified in January last year.
The removal of requirement of minority certificates is in keeping with the government’s decision to accept self-attestation across all departments and educational institutes.
The development came after the ministry received several representations from people belonging to minority communities, especially Jains, complaining about not being able to avail of benefits extended to them in the absence of certificates testifying to their communities from the concerned state government authorities.