India's UPA-led government at the centre is quite committed to religious freedom, but it has concerns on this issues at the local level, specially those states ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Obama administration's first Annual Report on International Religions Freedom, between July 2008 and June 2009 has said.

"The government at the central level is quite committed and it's also, as you know, a very diverse religiously diverse society, where, in fact, a lot of religions were born and nurtured. I think at a local level we have some concerns, and there are some specific instances mentioned in the report," Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labour, Michael H Posner, told reporters after the release of the Congressionally mandated annual report.