Minority educational institutions could approach National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions incase of difficulty in obtaining requisite certificate from state governments to get Constitutional protection under Article 30, its chairman M S A Siddiqui has said.

If the insitutions had difficulty in obtaining certificates from the states, they could take recourse to the commission after due process, he said at the 13th annual Islamic women's Welfare conference organised by a private Educational institute group here last nigt.

He said the minority run institutions could have their own administrative system without government interference. Art 30 of the Constituion empowered an individual to establish an educational institution for the minorities and have an administrative system of their choice.

Unaided minority institutions could admit 100 per cent students from their own community, but if they were to avail government aid, they would have an obligation to admit non-minority students to a reasonable extent as determined by the government, Siddiqui said.

National Committee on Girls Education Chairperson Shabistan Gaffar said a National database has to be created to provide information on rights of minorities and welfare schemes for them.

Non-Governmental organisations, working with the minorities, should unite and form hubs in their localities to access this data base and also report their problems to the government.

The National Committee on Girls Education would hold five zonal conferences across the country to find out problems at the grass root level, officials said.