The much hyped claims of Samajwadi Party to be best well-wishers of the minorities was exposed by the fact that nothing has been done by them along with previous Bahujan Samaj Party government to forward financial aide to bring up the members of the community into main stream of development by facilitating young entrepreneurs.
Not only this, the huge fund dispatched by the Centre for forwarding equal opportunity, education and other constitutional rights to the minorities has been also not utilised hitting the agenda of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government in the Centre to improve the condition of minorities. Unhappy with the progress particularly poor monitoring by chief secretary at state
level and district magistrates at local level, UPA Government had now made a move to form Independent Monitoring System to ensure proper and speedy use of the welfare funds.
In Uttar Pradesh, the State Minority Finance Development Commission formed under National Minority Finance Development Commission to forward financial
help to young entrepreneurs of the State and to facilitate them to come forward and compete with other members of the community has been largely hit as it is lying defunct for the last over six years", alleged Union Minister for Minority Welfare, K Rehman Khan adding that they provided Rs 1200 crore to the Commission to finance young entrepreneurs belonging to minority community. He was talking to the media persons soon after landing here to reviw the State Governments performance in implementation several welfare schemes launched by the UPA Government, here on Monday evening. State Congress president, Nirmal Khatri was also present during the press conference.
We sanctioned 1100 crore rupees to UP Govenrment for various welfare schemes of the minorities under 11th five-year plan besides giving several other projects under other Central Government Departments like construction of 16
polytechnics, ITIs, Primary Health Centre etc but we have reports that the fund has been not utilized properly", claimed K Rehman Khan. Similarly we have made allocation of Rs 750 crore under Maulana Azad Foundation for opening residential schools, further scholarships etc but so far we have received no proposal from the State to utilize the above benefit. He further cited poor implementation of Centre’s schemes in the 21 minorities concentrated districts of the State.
Raising another major issue of misuse and illegal grabbing of Waqf Properties which is a big problem in UP, Union Minister said that they already introduced Waqf
Amendment Bill which is likely to be passed by next session as it is already cleared up with suggestions by the Select Committee. likewise for eviction from Waqf properties which are already illegally occupied, UPA Government is bring-up separate legislation in the Parliament. He claimed that Centre also sanctioned a fund of Rs 100 crore under Maulana Azad Medical Aide Scheme under which any member of the minority could get benefit for treatment of chronic and serious diseases like cancer, arteries blockade, etc.
Union Minister for Minority Welfare also denied allegations of not so far implementing Sachchar Committee’s report. ``Except for three recommendations out of total 72 which included Equal Opportunity Commission, National Data Bank and Diversity Index, UPA government has already implemented all other proposals of Sachchar Committee", claimed K Rehman Khan asking the Opposition Parties that they should come up with the recommendations which are not implemented till now instead of accusing them that they not made it so far.