New Delhi: Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Thursday said that the term minority doesn't denote only Muslims and that there are five other notified minorities: Jains, Buddhists, Christians, Parsis and Sikhs.

The minister also replied to a supplementary question in the Lok Sabha. Naqvi said that the government in last five year had connected 308 minority districts under the 'Pradhan Mantri Jan Vikas Karyakram' (PMJVK) scheme which were limited to 90 districts in the UPA government.