To boost education among the minority girls of the State, it has been decided that such girls who have been enrolled in schools will get free cycles. Besides, the minority certificates will be made available online by September 30. To ensure this, the district magistrates will organise special camps in the minority dominated areas under their jurisdictional limits.
The chief secretary Shatrughan Singh has issued these instructions while convening a meeting to assess things on the functioning of the 15-point state level programme implementation committee in the secretariat on Thursday.
Singh stressed on drinking water being made available in the minority dominated areas. Besides, such areas must have connecting roads, hostels, schools and other basic amenities. Projects worth of Rs36 crore were approved during the meeting.
Notably, around 17.05 lakh minority community people are in the State, constituting 16.9 percent of the total population of the State. It includes Muslim, Sikh, Christian, Buddhist, Parsis and Jains.
To expedite the minority welfare programme implementation, the State has appointed minority welfare officers (MWO) in Dehradun, Haridwar, Udham Singh Nagar and Nainital districts.
With the budget of Rs36 crore, the forest villages at Vikasnagar, Bahadarabad, Bhagwanpur, laksar, Narsan, Roorkee, Jaspur, Kashipur, Rudrapur, Sitarganj, Bajpur Udham Singh Nagar, Haridwar and Pauri will be upgraded in terms of infrastructure. Besides it committee has also sanctioned funds for Sahaspur, Mehunwala Maafi in Rajpur, Markham in Doiwala. Besides, Bhogpur has been also included in MSDP. Regarding this, the State Government would send a proposal to the Centre.
During the meeting, it was disclosed that 300 Madarsas are running and 166 are registered. Among the registered madarsas, 153 are getting Rs5000 each from the State Government. 127 Madarsas are serving mid day meal. 25823 students are enjoying MDMS. Kasturba Gandhi girls school’s students are getting free accommodation, food, education and Rs100 each as month stipend. In these madarsas, the students are being imparted lessons on science, mathematics and English. “We are disbursing graduate teacher for Rs6000 per month and post graduate teacher for Rs12000 per month,” CS said.
It was disclosed that 236 persons had been given training in multiple trade in the year 2015-16. Out of them, 206 trained youths have got employment.
During the meeting, secretary Finance Amit Negi, Secretary Social Welfare Dr Bhupinder Kaur Aulakh, secretary Urban Development DS Garbyal, secretary Technical Education D Senthil Pandian, Haridwar DM Harbans Singh Chugh, Dehradun DM Ravinath Raman, Udham Singh Nagar DM in-charge Ashish Srivastava and under secretary (Minority Welfare) of the Union government Geeta Mishra were present.