Jews to write to govt for minority tag

When Jewish couples want to register their marriages or get a newborn's birth certificate, ignorance about their religion often comes in the way.
To combat this, the tiny community — numbering just around 4,000 in India — has decided to petition the ministry of minority affairs to be notified as a minority.
When Sopher, chairman of Sir Jacob Sassoon and Allied Trusts, had a meeting with minority affairs minister Najma Heptulla in October last year, it was pointed out that the list of Indian Jews wasn't mentioned in the census."When the census officers come to the door and we say we are Jews, they ask, "What's a Jew?" he said. Out of frustration, a lot of people end up leaving the column blank or inserting a more familiar religion like Christianity.