Lok Sabha Question No. 3850 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-08-09
Subject: Basic Amenities to Minorities
Ministry: MINORITY AFFAIRS
Asked by: SATYA PAL SINGH, SANJAY SHAMRAO DHOTRE, RAHUL RAMESH SHEWALE

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF MINORITY AFFAIRS LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 3850 TO BE ANSWERED ON 09.08.2017

## Basic Amenities to Minorities

## 3850. DR. SATYAPAL SINGH: SHRI SANJAY DHOTRE: SHRI RAHUL SHEWALE:

Will the Minister of MINORITY AFFAIRS be pleased to state:

- (a)  the  details  of  the  financial  assistance  provided  by  the  Government  for  development  of  basic amenities in minority dominated areas of the country during each of the last three years and the current year, State/UT-wise;
- (b) the norms/criterion to declare a city/town as minority dominated in the country;
- (c) whether some of the cities/towns have not been declared minority dominated despite being eligible under the said norms/ criterion in the country;
- (d) if so, the details thereof, State/ UT-wise and the reasons therefor;
- (e) the existing mechanism to monitor the development of minority dominated areas in the country; and
- (f)  the  other  steps  taken/being  taken  by  the  Government  to  ensure  overall  development  of  minority dominated areas across the country?

## ANSWER

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

- (a) The details of the  funds released under Multi-sectoral Development Programme during each of the last three years and the current year, State/UT-wise is annexed .
- (b) to (d) Under the Multi-sectoral Development Programme(MsDP), Towns/cities with a minimum of 25%  minority  population  (in  case  of  6  States/UTs  namely  Lakshawdeep,  Punjab,  Nagaland, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Jammu & Kashmir, 15% of minority population, other than that of the minority community in majority in that State/UT) having both socio-economic and basic amenities parameters below national average, have been identified as Minority Concentration Towns/Cities for  the  implementation  of  the  programme  during  the  12 th Plan  Period.    The  data  used  for identification of the area was of Census, 2001.  Only blocks and towns which meet the criteria are identified  as  minority  concentration  areas.    List  of  such  area  is  in  the  website  of  the  Ministry  at http://www.minorityaffairs.gov.in/sites/default/files/guideline.pdf.
- (e) Under  the  extant  guidelines  of  the  programme,  there  is  a  provision  for  robust  monitoring mechanism.   Under  this  mechanism,  the  Block  Level  Committee  (BLC)  for  MsDP  monitors  the implementation  of  MsDP  at  the  block  level.  The  District  Level  Committees  and  State  Level Committees, constituted for implementation of the Prime Minister's New 15 Point Programme, are the Oversight Committees at the District and State levels respectively to monitor the progress of implementation of MsDP.  The Empowered Committee at the Centre also serves as the Oversight Committee to monitor the progress of implementation of MsDP.
- (f) To ensure the overall development of Minority dominated area across the country, the Ministry has initiated a process for restructuring of the programme for the implementation in remaining period of 14 th Finance Commission including revision in the list of Minority Concentration Areas based on the 2011 Census data.

*****

Annexure referred in reply to part (a) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No.3850 for 09.08.2017 regarding Basic Amenities to Minorities asked by Dr. Satyapal Singh, Shri Sanjay Dhotre and Shri Rahul Shewale, Members of Parliament.

| Sl. No.   | State                    | During 2014-15 Fund Released   | During 2015-16 Fund Released   | During 2016-17 Total Released   | 2017-18 Total Released   |
|-----------|--------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|--------------------------|
|           |                          |                                |                                |                                 | Rs. in lakh              |
| 1         | Uttar Pradesh            | 13204.81                       | 32468.00                       | 14364.00                        | 542.39                   |
| 2         | West Bengal              | 37590.75                       | 20768.00                       | 17876.28                        | 0                        |
| 3         | Assam                    | 1111.98                        | 19862.27                       | 22076.64                        | 1237.24                  |
| 4         | Bihar                    | 9808.29                        | 4499.36                        | 13662.89                        | 0                        |
| 5         | Manipur                  | 405.44                         | 3815.20                        | 4753.46                         | 100                      |
| 6         | Haryana                  |                                | 1210.65                        | 1684.51                         | 0                        |
| 7         | Jharkhand                | 598.63                         | 962.90                         | 4940.56                         | 0                        |
| 8         | Uttrakhand               | 2293.18                        | 2521.12                        | 1661.21                         | 0                        |
| 9         | Maharashtra              | 329.86                         | 3268.20                        | 130.62                          | 0                        |
| 10        | Karnataka                | 1635.04                        | 3769.27                        | 3846.43                         | 0                        |
| 11        | Andaman & Nicobar Island | 22.22                          | 41.34                          | 0.00                            | 0                        |
| 12        | Odisha                   | 198.75                         | 1405.00                        | 0.00                            | 0                        |
| 13        | Meghalaya                | 534.69                         | 676.15                         | 331.78                          | 0                        |
| 14        | Kerala                   | 213.84                         | 2021.55                        | 0.00                            | 0                        |
| 15        | Mizoram                  |                                | 422.19                         | 70.19                           | 0                        |
| 16        | Jammu &Kashmir           |                                | 480.00                         | 447.83                          | 0                        |
| 17        | Delhi                    | 120.45                         | 113.81                         | 0.00                            | 0                        |
| 18        | Madhya Pradesh           |                                | 446.84                         | 212.79                          | 418.56                   |
| 19        | Sikkim                   | 618.60                         | 498.54                         | 0.00                            | 239.12                   |
| 20        | Arunachal Pradesh        | 329.47                         | 4330.14                        | 5193.99                         | 105.178                  |
| 21        | Andhra Pradesh           | 1748.72                        |                                | 4768.22                         | 0                        |
| 22        | Telangana                | 271.79                         | 1079.36                        | 3780.00                         | 0                        |
| 23        | Tripura                  | 3124.13                        | 3685.27                        | 3322.59                         | 355.157                  |
| 24        | Punjab                   |                                | 1050.00                        | 0.00                            | 0                        |
| 25        | Rajasthan                | 2625.95                        | 2639.36                        | 3922.92                         | 49.83                    |
| 26        | Gujarat                  |                                |                                | 0.00                            | 0                        |
| 27        | Chattisgarh              |                                |                                | 1025.06                         | 0                        |
|           | Total                    | 76786.57                       | 112034.51                      | 108071.97                       | 3047.475                 |