The ministry is also involved with the
linguistic minorities and of the office of the Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities, representation of the
Anglo-Indian community, protection and preservation of non-Muslim shrines in Pakistan and Muslim shrines in India in terms of the Pant-Mirza Agreement of 1955, in consultation with the
Ministry of External Affairs. The Minister in charge is also Chairperson of the
Central Wakf Council, India, which manages the running of the
State Wakf Boards. Ministry of Minority Affairs provides Moma scholarship to minority community students of India every year. Moma Scholarship is a scholarship scheme of the Ministry of Minority Affairs initiated with the aim of supporting minority communities student who is not financially strong and wants to pursue higher studies in India. Minority communities in India includes Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, Buddhists, Parsis and Jains. The scholarship is awarded to the students by India Government through State Government/UTs. The scholarship is awarded for the undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Constitutional Article: 350B. :#There shall be a Special Officer for linguistic minorities to be appointed by the President. :#It shall be the duty of the Special Officer to investigate all matters relating to the safeguards provided for linguistic minorities under this Constitution and report to the President upon those matters at such intervals as the President may direct, and the President shall cause all such reports to be laid before each House of Parliament, and sent to the Governments of the States concerned. It is to be decided based on states as the states have been formed on linguistic basis. ==Cabinet Ministers==