The Madrasa Board Manual and Act will be brought up in the State Cabinet as early as possible. The State Government is also preparing a scheme for providing homes to 200 homeless minority families in the next financial year’s budget. In addition to this, Piran Kaliyar is being developed on the lines of Char Dham, said Chief Minister Harish Rawat. The CM was speaking at a minorities’ convention organised by the Pradesh Congress Committee minorities department at the Congress Bhawan here on Sunday.
Addressing the gathering the CM said that `26 crore provision had been made this year for boundary walls of cemeteries. The State will enter into tie-ups with banks for minority employment and skill development schemes. Under the Mukhya Mantri Hunar Yojana approval has been granted for training 350 beneficiaries from minority community in various trades at National Institute for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development (NIESBD). In addition to this 180 minority community persons will be trained at Institute of Hotel Management, Catering Technology and Applied Nutrition,Dehradun. Rawat said that three women Industrial Training Institutes for women and two women’s degree colleges are under construction for skill development and educational upgradation of women from minority community.The minorities welfare department is preparing a list of minority-dominated areas lacking supply of power, water and other basic facilities for which a certain percentage of the departmental budget will be spent on minority-dominated areas. The CM further said that the State Government has started various pension schemes for social welfare in addition to which sustenance and nutrition allowance is also being provided for abandoned and mentally affected persons.
Rawat said that the State Government is working in cooperation with organisations working in the Muslim community to encourage education of girls from the minority- especially Muslim community. The Maulana Azad Education Foundation interest-free education loan scheme is also being publicised more for the welfare of minority communities, said the CM.
Speaking on the occasion, the Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee president Kishore Upadhyay referred to aspects like secularism and minority welfare. The State party co- in charge Sanjay Kapur, Cabinet Minister Dinesh Aggarwal and other party leaders were also among those present.