India, Feb. 22 -- 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.

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 instit...