Govt. promoting Hinduism? 

New Delhi: The National Minorities Commission has asked the Centre to do away with the proviso in the Presidential Order (PO) of Scheduled Castes/ Scheduled Tribes which uses religion as the criterion for deciding the SC status. The third para of the 1950 PO lists only the low caste and economically backward “Hindus”. Sikhs and Buddhists as SCs and under the present law Dalits lose their SC status and related benefits if they convert to Christianity. The NMC has sought an amendment to PO as it discriminates on the basis of religion, thereby recommending SC status to Dalit Christians.