CM stays NCP minister-led minority devp dept decision

After issuing a series of probe orders and stay orders to decisions by departments under Shiv Sena ministers, Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis has now intervened in the working of the minority development department led by the Nationalist Congress Party's Dattatray Bharne, after Shiv Sena minister Sanjay Rathod complained about alleged irregularities in granting minority status to an educational institute in the Yavatmal district.

- Saurabha Kulshreshtha

MUMBAI:

Apart from ordering a stay on the decision to grant minority status to the institute, the Fadnavis government also issued an order making it mandatory for educational institutes to apply online for a digitally signed minority status certificate.

Since July 2017, educational institutes belonging to religious or linguistic minorities could register on the Aaple Sarkar portal and get an online certificate once the government grants them minority status. However, this wasn't mandatory.

Govt order According to a government order issued on February 20, the state government decided to make the online process mandatory after receiving complaints regarding irregularities in the offline process.