Lok Sabha Question No. 3819 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-03-23
Subject: Implementation of Schemes for Minorities
Ministry: MINORITY AFFAIRS
Asked by: S. Gnanathiraviam

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## IMPLEMENTATION OF SCHEMES FOR MINORITIES

## 3819. SHRI GNANATHIRAVIAM S.:

Will the Minister of MINORITY AFFAIRS be pleased to state:

(a)  the  details  of  the  schemes  and  programmes  being  implemented  by the  Government  for minority communities in the country during the last three years and the current year, yearwise;

(b) the progress of the implementation of each scheme during the said period, year, scheme and community-wise;

- (c)  the  targets  and  achievements  of  each  scheme  during  the  said  period,  year and  schemewise;

(d) whether it is a fact that there are some loopholes/constraints in achieving the targets and percolating the benefits down to the beneficiaries; and

- (e)  if so, the manner in which the Government proposes to plug those loopholes  for effective implementation of the said schemes?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF MINORITY AFFAIRS (SHRIMATI SMRITI ZUBIN IRANI)

(a) to (c) The Government has implemented various schemes for the welfare and upliftment of every strata, including minorities, specially the economically weaker and lesser privileged sections of the society, through various schemes  of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Ministry of Textiles, Ministry  of Culture,  Ministry of Women and Child Development and Ministry of Rural Development.

Ministry of Minority Affairs specifically implements various schemes across the country for socio-economic  and  educational  empowerment  of  the  six  (6)  centrally  notified  minority communities. The schemes/programmes implemented by the Ministry during last three years are as under:

## (A) Educational Empowerment Schemes

- (1) Pre-Matric Scholarship Scheme
- (2) Post-Matric Scholarship Scheme
- (3) Merit-cum-Means based Scholarship Scheme

## (B) Employment and Economic Empowerment Schemes

- (4) Pradhan Mantri Virasat Ka Samvardhan (PMVIKAS)
- (5)  Equity  to  National  Minorities  Development  and  Finance  Corporation  (NMDFC)  for providing concessional loans to minorities.

## (C) Special Schemes

- (6) Jiyo Parsi: A scheme for reversing the population decline of Parsis in India.
- (7)  Qaumi  Waqf  Board  Taraqqiati  Scheme  (QWBTS) and  Shahari  Waqf  Sampatti  Vikas Yojana (SWSVY).

## (D) Infrastructure Development Schemes

## (8) Pradhan Mantri Jan Vikas Karyakram (PMJVK)

Scheme- wise and year-wise details of funds allocated and number of beneficiaries during the last three years and  current year are available on the website of the  Ministry i.e. www.minorityaffairs.gov.in.  The  Ministry  maintains  data  of  community  wise  beneficiaries only for the scholarship schemes.

(d) & (e): The benefits of the welfare schemes meant for the minority communities are being availed of by the eligible beneficiaries and in order to ensure that the benefits of the schemes implemented for minorities actually reach the intended beneficiaries, efforts have been made to  further  improve  the  monitoring  mechanisms  of  the  Ministry  for  better  control  and implementation of the Schemes.

The scholarship amount/ stipend/ financial assistance under various schemes of this Ministry including skilling is released directly into the account of beneficiaries through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) mode. Further, the Scholarship schemes are being implemented through the National  Scholarship  Portal  (NSP)  which  has  features of  sanity  check,  avoiding  deduplication, thereby resulting in elimination of middlemen, ghost beneficiaries etc.

The Pradhan Mantri  Jan Vikas  Karyakram  (PMJVK)  has  been  revised  from  financial  year 2022-23 for implementation in all districts of the country. A mobile app PMJVK Bhuvan has been  developed  for  Geo-tagging  of  all  the  assets  created  under  PMJVK  and  capturing  the project specific attributes including photographs of different stages of construction/completion  of  projects  for  better  implementation/  monitoring  of  the  projects under PMJVK.

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