<h1 class="ql-align-center"><strong style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">Justice Ranganath Mishra Committee&nbsp;</strong></h1><p class="ql-align-center"><br></p><h3><strong>Context&nbsp;</strong></h3><ul><li class="ql-indent-1">The <strong>Supreme Court said that a 2007 report of the Justice Ranganath Mishra Commission for Religious and Linguistic Minorities</strong> is not all that “perfunctory”, adding that the government may need to “re­ check” its stance on the report.</li></ul><h3><strong>About&nbsp;</strong></h3><ul><li class="ql-align-justify ql-indent-1">Ranganath Mishra Commission is the name of the <strong>National Commission for Religious and Linguistic Minorities</strong> that was constituted by the Government of India in 2004.</li><li class="ql-align-justify ql-indent-1">It was constituted to look into various issues related to the linguistic and religious minorities in the country.&nbsp;</li><li class="ql-align-justify ql-indent-1">Chaired by former <strong>CJI Ranganath Misra, the Commission submitted its report in 2007.</strong></li><li class="ql-align-justify ql-indent-1">The report recommended that SC status be completely delinked from religion and be made religion-neutral like STs.</li><li class="ql-align-justify ql-indent-1">It had recommended permitting Dalits who converted into Islam and Christianity to avail Scheduled Caste status.</li></ul><p class="ql-align-center"><br></p><h1 class="ql-align-center"><strong>PRELIMS NOTES:</strong><a href="https://www.sunyaias.com/subscription-details/prelims-2023-sunya-notes-current-affairs" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204);"><strong>CLICK HERE</strong></a></h1>