Special Officer for Linguistic Minorities

• The Seventh Constitutional Amendment Act of 1956 inserted a new
• Article 350- B in Part XVII, which deals with linguistic minorities.
• A linguistic minority is a group of people whose mother tongue is different from that of the majority in the state or part of a state. Thus, the linguistic minorities are determined on a state-wise basis.
• A Special Officer for Linguistic Minorities is appointed by the President of India.
• He submit the report to the President.
• The President place the reports before each House of Parliament
• The office of the Special Officer for Linguistic Minorities was created in 1957. Headquarters at Allahabad (Uttar Pradesh).
• Other three regional offices at Belgaum (Karnataka), Chennai (Tamil Nadu) and Kolkata (West Bengal). Each is headed by an Assistant Commissioner.
• The Commissioner falls under the Ministry of Minority Affairs.