New Delhi: Senior bureaucrat B Anand has been given additional charge as Secretary of the National Commission for Minorities. Anand is a 1987-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the Tamil Nadu cadre. Presently, he is serving as Secretary of the National Commission for Minorities. According to an order from the Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT), Anand has been appointed to the post upon the superannuation of Saraswati Prasad (IAS) on December 31, 2020, and till the appointment of a regular incumbent or until further orders, whichever is earlier.
Anand is a 1987-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the Tamil Nadu cadre. Presently, he is serving as Secretary of the National Commission for Minorities. Besides this, he also holds the additional charge of Financial Advisor in the Department of Biotechnology and the Ministry of Earth Sciences.
The Union government set up the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) under the National Commission for Minorities Act-1992. Six religious communities, viz; Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Zoroastrians (Parsis) and Jains have been notified in the Gazette of India as minority communities by the Union government all over India. The Commission is working in the area of protecting the existence of the national or ethnic, cultural, religious and linguistic identity of minorities within their respective territories and encourage conditions for the promotion of that identity.
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