Lok Sabha Question No. 1763 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-07-26
Subject: Setting up Girls Hostels and Degree Colleges
Ministry: MINORITY AFFAIRS
Asked by: KIRRON KHER, ANOOP MISHRA

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF MINORITY AFFAIRS LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 1763 TO BE ANSWERED ON 26.07.2017

## Setting up Girls Hostels and Degree Colleges

## 1763. SHRIMATI KIRRON KHER: SHRI ANOOP MISHRA:

Will the Minister of MINORITY AFFAIRS be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  the  Government  proposes  to  set  up  more  girls  hostels  and  model  degree  colleges  in various    districts  of  the  country  especially  in  minority  dominated  districts  during  the  last  three years to further increase their rate of literacy; and
- (b) if  so,  the details thereof, State and location-wise including Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh and Madhya Pradesh including literacy progress report, year-wise?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) IN THE MINISTRY OF MINORITY AFFAIRS (SHRI MUKHTAR ABBAS NAQVI)

- (a) & (b) The Multi-sectoral  Development Programme (MsDP), a Centrally Sponsored Scheme,  has been implemented in 710 Minority Concentration Blocks, 66 Minority Concentration Town and 13 Clusters of Contagious Villages during the 12 th Plan  period  ending 2016-17.  This programme is aimed at improving the socio-economic infrastructure and basic amenities for uplifting the quality of life of the minority.   This programme has provided financial support inter-alia for creation of assets  like  School  building,  Additional  Class  Rooms,  Polytechnics,  ITIs,  Hostels  in  minority concentration  area.  The  Ministry  during  last  three  years  has  sanctioned  340  units  of  hostels including  girl's  hostels  and  10  nos.  of  degree  colleges  in  the  identified  Minority  Concentration Blocks/Towns of the country including the States of Haryana and Madhya Pradesh.  The details of hostels/degree colleges sanctioned by Ministry under MsDP are annexed.  Further details are also available on the Ministry's website at http://www.minorityaffairs.gov.in/schemesperformance/multi-sectoral-development-

programme/empowered-committee-minutes.  The data showing literacy rates of  2001 and 2011 are as follows:-

| States         | 2001   | 2001   | 2001   | 2011   | 2011   | 2011          |
|----------------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|---------------|
|                | Female | Male   | Total  | Female | Male   | Total         |
|                |        |        |        |        |        | In percentage |
| Punjab         | 63.55% | 75.63% | 69.95% | 71.34% | 81.48% | 76.68%        |
| Haryana        | 56.31% | 79.25% | 68.59% | 66.77% | 85.38% | 76.64%        |
| Chandigarh     | 76.65% | 85.65% | 81.76% | 81.38% | 90.54% | 86.43%        |
| Madhya Pradesh | 50.28% | 76.8%  | 64.11% | 60.02% | 80.53% | 70.63%        |

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Annexure referred in reply to part (a) and (b) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No.1763 for 26.07.2017 regarding Setting up Girls Hostels and Degree  Colleges  asked by Shrimati  Kirron Kher and Shri Anoop Mishra

| S.No   | State             | Nos. of unit of Hostels sanctioned   | Nos. of unit of Hostels sanctioned   | Nos. of unit of Hostels sanctioned   | Nos. of unit of Degree Colleges sanctioned   | Nos. of unit of Degree Colleges sanctioned   | Nos. of unit of Degree Colleges sanctioned   |
|--------|-------------------|--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------|
| S.No   | State             | 2014-15                              | 2015-16                              | 2016-17                              | 2014-15                                      | 2015-16                                      | 2016-17                                      |
| 1      | Uttar Pradesh     | 0                                    | 5                                    | 0                                    | 2                                            | 2                                            | 0                                            |
| 2      | West Bengal       | 34                                   | 30                                   | 7                                    | 0                                            | 0                                            | 0                                            |
| 3      | Assam             | 0                                    | 38                                   | 46                                   | 0                                            | 0                                            | 0                                            |
| 4      | Bihar             | 07                                   | 8                                    | 16                                   | 0                                            | 0                                            | 0                                            |
| 5      | Manipur           | 02                                   | 9                                    | 4                                    | 0                                            | 0                                            | 0                                            |
| 6      | Haryana           | 0                                    | 0                                    | 2                                    | 0                                            | 0                                            | 0                                            |
| 7      | Jharkhand         | 0                                    | 0                                    | 8                                    | 0                                            | 0                                            | 0                                            |
| 8      | Uttrakhand        | 02                                   | 0                                    | 4                                    | 3                                            | 0                                            | 0                                            |
| 9      | Maharashtra       | 03                                   | 5                                    | 0                                    | 0                                            | 0                                            | 0                                            |
| 10     | Karnataka         | 10                                   | 5                                    | 4                                    | 0                                            | 0                                            | 0                                            |
| 12     | Odisha            | 1                                    |                                      | 0                                    | 0                                            | 0                                            | 0                                            |
| 16     | Jammu& Kashmir    | 0                                    | 2                                    | 0                                    | 0                                            | 0                                            | 0                                            |
| 18     | Madhya Pradesh    | 0                                    | 3                                    | 1                                    | 0                                            | 0                                            | 0                                            |
| 19     | Sikkim            | 0                                    | 0                                    | 1                                    | 0                                            | 0                                            | 0                                            |
| 20     | Arunachal Pradesh | 0                                    | 14                                   | 19                                   | 0                                            | 0                                            | 0                                            |
| 21     | Andhra Pradesh    | 12                                   | 0                                    | 0                                    | 0                                            | 0                                            | 0                                            |
| 22     | Telangana         | 12                                   | 0                                    | 0                                    | 0                                            | 0                                            | 0                                            |
| 23     | Tripura           | 03                                   | 3                                    | 0                                    | 0                                            | 0                                            | 0                                            |
| 25     | Rajasthan         | 0                                    | 7                                    | 1                                    | 1                                            | 1                                            | 0                                            |
| 27     | Chhattisgarh      | 0                                    | 0                                    | 12                                   | 1                                            | 0                                            | 0                                            |
| Total  | Total             | 86                                   | 129                                  | 125                                  | 7                                            | 3                                            | 0                                            |

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