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Scholars in the Jain tradition, as well as several groups amongst the Jain community protested, and emphasised that Jain religion stands as a religion in its own right. While Hinduism as a mode of living, and as a culture is to be found across various religions in India because of several common customs, traditions and practices, but as ...
This made the Jain community, which makes for 9.5 million or 0.72 percent of the population as per 2011 census, the sixth community to be designated this status as a "national minority", after Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, and Parsis. [17]
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, Jains, Sikhs, Buddhists and Zoroastrians (Parsis) have been notified in Gazette of India as minority communities by the Union Government all over India. [2]
It submitted a petition to the Delhi Government which played a part in Jains getting declared as a minority in Delhi. [4] The organization has also presented memorandums to the Punjab Government for providing the status of a religious minority to Jains in Punjab. [5] The organization also stages protests and rallies to highlight their cause. [2]
Ajit Jain – Indian-American business executive [21] Anshu Jain – Indian-born British business executive [22] Bhavarlal Jain – Chairman of Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd. [23] Rakesh Gangwal – Co-founder and owner of Indigo Airlines [24] Tarang Jain - billionaire businessman, the CEO and owner of Varroc, an Indian two- and four-wheeler ...
Minority-owned businesses are those that are at least 51 percent owned, operated and controlled by a minority group. Black- and African-American-owned businesses fall under this umbrella.
Jainism (/ ˈ dʒ eɪ n ɪ z əm / JAY-niz-əm), also known as Jain Dharma, [1] is an Indian religion.Jainism traces its spiritual ideas and history through the succession of twenty-four tirthankaras (supreme preachers of Dharma), with the first in the current time cycle being Rishabhadeva, whom the tradition holds to have lived millions of years ago, the twenty-third tirthankara Parshvanatha ...
Being a small-business owner is always stressful, but the past couple of years have been even more challenging than usual. Many businesses closed their doors -- temporarily and, in some cases,...