The Crossbill News Desk
Union Minister of Minority and Parliamentary Affairs, Kiren Rijiju, informed the Rajya Sabha on Monday (February 10) about the Prime Minister’s New 15-Point Programme for the Welfare of Minorities.
The initiative aims to ensure that underprivileged and weaker sections of the six centrally notified minority communities have equal access to various government welfare schemes.
The programme encompasses multiple welfare schemes implemented by the Ministry of Minority Affairs and other participating ministries.
These include pre-matric and post-matric scholarship schemes, the merit-cum-means based scholarship scheme, National Minorities Development Finance Corporation (NMDFC) loan schemes, Samagra Shiksha Abhiyaan, Deen Dayal Antyodaya Yojana (DAY-NRLM), Deen Dayal Upadhyay – Gramin Kaushalya Yojana, and Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana.
While the schemes under the Ministry of Minority Affairs are exclusively designed for notified minority communities, 15% of the outlays and targets—wherever feasible—are earmarked for minorities in initiatives led by other participating ministries and departments.
The programme focuses on four key objectives: (i) Expanding educational opportunities for minorities; (ii) Ensuring fair representation in economic activities and employment through existing and new schemes, enhanced credit support for self-employment, and recruitment in State and Central Government jobs; (iii) Improving the living conditions of minorities by securing an equitable share in infrastructure development projects; and (iv) Preventing and controlling communal disharmony and violence.
According to an official release from the Press Information Bureau, these schemes are being implemented by respective ministries and departments under the government’s saturation approach.
Additional welfare schemes under the programme include the Deen Dayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Urban Livelihoods Mission, priority sector lending by banks, Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana, POSHAN Abhiyaan, National Health Mission, Ayushman Bharat, and the National Rural Drinking Water Programme.
The initiative aims to ensure that underprivileged and weaker sections of the six centrally notified minority communities have equal access to various government welfare schemes.
The programme encompasses multiple welfare schemes implemented by the Ministry of Minority Affairs and other participating ministries.
These include pre-matric and post-matric scholarship schemes, the merit-cum-means based scholarship scheme, National Minorities Development Finance Corporation (NMDFC) loan schemes, Samagra Shiksha Abhiyaan, Deen Dayal Antyodaya Yojana (DAY-NRLM), Deen Dayal Upadhyay – Gramin Kaushalya Yojana, and Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana.
While the schemes under the Ministry of Minority Affairs are exclusively designed for notified minority communities, 15% of the outlays and targets—wherever feasible—are earmarked for minorities in initiatives led by other participating ministries and departments.
The programme focuses on four key objectives: (i) Expanding educational opportunities for minorities; (ii) Ensuring fair representation in economic activities and employment through existing and new schemes, enhanced credit support for self-employment, and recruitment in State and Central Government jobs; (iii) Improving the living conditions of minorities by securing an equitable share in infrastructure development projects; and (iv) Preventing and controlling communal disharmony and violence.
According to an official release from the Press Information Bureau, these schemes are being implemented by respective ministries and departments under the government’s saturation approach.
Additional welfare schemes under the programme include the Deen Dayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Urban Livelihoods Mission, priority sector lending by banks, Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana, POSHAN Abhiyaan, National Health Mission, Ayushman Bharat, and the National Rural Drinking Water Programme.
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