Lok Sabha Question No. 5346 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-03-28
Subject: National Data Bank
Ministry: MINORITY AFFAIRS
Asked by: RAJEEV SHANKARRAO SATAV, P.R. SUNDARAM, DHANANJAY BHIMRAO MAHADIK, HEENA VIJAYKUMAR GAVIT, SUPRIYA SADANAND SULE, JAYAKUMAR JAYAVARDHAN, VIJAYSINH MOHITE PATIL

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF MINORITY AFFAIRS

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 5346

## TO BE ANSWERED ON 28.03.2018

## NATIONAL DATA BANK

5346. SHRI SATAV RAJEEV:

SHRI P.R. SUNDARAM:

SHRI DHANANJAY MAHADIK:

DR. HEENA VIJAYKUMAR GAVIT:

SHRIMATI SUPRIYA SULE:

DR. J. JAYAVARDHAN:

SHRI MOHITE PATIL VIJAYSINH SHANKARRAO:

Will the Minister of MINORITY AFFAIRS be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  the  Government  has  developed  a  National  Data  Bank  as suggested  by  the  Sachar  Committee  for  implementation  of  schemes related to minorities;
- (b) if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor;
- (c) whether the Government conducts social audit of all programmes and schemes that concern minorities;
- (d) if so, the details of the audit conducted during the last three years and the current year;
- (e) the outcome of the audit conducted and action taken thereto; and
- (f)  the other steps taken by the Government for proper implementation of schemes formulated for the welfare of minorities?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF MINORITY AFFAIRS (SHRI MUKHTAR ABBAS NAQVI)

(a) to (b): The  Sachar  Committee  on  social,  economic  and  educational status  of  the  Muslim  community  in  India  recommended  creation  of  a National  Data  Bank  (NDB)  to  maintain  relevant  socio-economic  data  for socio-religious categories (SRCs). Accordingly, a NDB has been created in the  form  of  a  webpage  on  the  website  of  the  Ministry  of  Statistics  and Programme  Implementation.  The  official  data  pertaining  to  various  SRCs obtained from various data sources/ programme Ministries/Departments are uploaded  on  the  webpage  www.mospi.gov.in/national-data-bank.  So  far, around 200 tables on various socio-economic aspects of SRCs have been uploaded on the NDB.

(c) to (f): The Ministry of Minority Affairs implements a special programme  called Multi-sectoral  Development  Programme  (MsDP)  to address the development deficits by creating socio-economic infrastructure and  providing  basic  amenities  in  identified  minority  concentration  areas, which are relatively backward. This  programme  has  a provision of monitoring  through  social  audit  mechanism.  The  Block  Level  Committee (BLC) monitors the implementation of MsDP at the block level. The District and State Level Committees that have been constituted for the implementation  of  Prime  Minister's  New  15  Point  Programme  for  the welfare  of  minorities  also  to  monitor  the  progress  of  implementation  of MsDP at the District and State levels.

Other  programmes/schemes  of  the  Ministry  are  mainly  targeted  towards individual beneficiaries belonging to minority communities like scholarships for students, coaching for students and aspiring candidates for competitive examinations for entry into technical and professional courses and for job employment, skill development trainings for youth and open school education plus skill training for school drop-out children. All the disbursements  to  beneficiaries  are  transferred  into  the  individual  bank accounts.  Sufficient  checks  and  balances  have  evolved  in  the  process  of submission  and  scrutiny of applications for scholarship  schemes  for minority students, and as such the need is not felt for monitoring through social audit.

The  schemes/programmes  of  the  Ministry  are  also  reviewed  for  bringing about  improvement  and  are  monitored  on  regular  basis  for  their  effective implementation  by  holding  of  Regional  Conference/Workshops,  internal meetings, Progress Panchayats; besides carrying out periodical assessment and evaluation by independent agencies/inspecting authorities (IAs). Details in this regard, as available, are on the website of the Ministry at www.minorityaffairs.gov.in.

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