Lok Sabha Question No. 2820 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2015-12-16
Subject: Grants to State Waqf Boards and Minority Women
Ministry: MINORITY AFFAIRS
Asked by: ANIRUDHAN SAMPATH

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF MINORITY AFFAIRS

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 2820 TO BE ANSWERED ON 16.12.2015

Grants to State Waqf Boards and Minority Women

## 2820. Dr. A. Sampath:

Will the Minister of MINORITY AFFAIRS be pleased to state:

- (a)  whether  the  State  Waqf  Boards  could  not  utilise  the  grant-in-aid  and  as  a result  thereof,  there  was  no  spending  on  a  number  of  schemes  including scheme for leadership development of minority women;
- (b)  if  so,  the  details  thereof  during  each  of  the  last  three  years,  State-wise including Telangana and the reasons therefor; and
- (c)  the  steps  taken/being  taken  to  ensure  that  such  situation  does  not  arise  in future?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF MINORITY AFFAIRS

## (SHRI MUKHTAR ABBAS NAQVI)

- (a) & (b) This Ministry implements two Plan Schemes namely (i) 'Computerisation of records of State & UT Waqf Boards' and (ii) Strengthening of State Waqf Boards, in which Grants-in-aid is provided to State / UT Waqf Boards. The Grants-in-aid under  the  Scheme  of  Computerisation  of  records  of  State  &  UT  Waqf  Boards (SWBs)  have  been  provided  to  State  Waqf  Boards  for  setting  up  of  Central Computing Facility & handholding charges. The State Waqf Boards have utilized the  funds  for  the  purpose,  it  was  released  except  the  State  Waqf  Boards mentioned below who are still having unspent fund as per detail given below:

|   S.No. | State Waqf Boards                              | Unutilized Amount   |
|---------|------------------------------------------------|---------------------|
|       1 | Andaman & Nicobar State Waqf Board             | 11.39 Lacs          |
|       2 | Andhra Pradesh and Telangana State Waqf Boards | 4.00 Lacs           |
|       3 | Assam State Waqf Board                         | 4.13 Lacs           |
|       4 | Bihar Shia State Waqf Board                    | 9.00 Lacs           |
|       5 | Bihar Sunni State Waqf Board                   | 0.05 Lacs           |
|       6 | Chhattisgarh State Waqf Board                  | 9.78 Lacs           |
|       7 | Delhi State Waqf Board                         | 12.00 Lacs          |
|       8 | Gujarat State Waqf Board                       | 13.00 Lacs          |
|       9 | Himachal Pradesh State Waqf Board              | 8.00 Lacs           |
|      10 | Jammu & Kashmir State Waqf Board               | 9.90 Lacs           |
|      11 | Lakshadweep State Waqf Board                   | 15.49 Lacs          |
|      12 | Madhya Pradesh State Waqf Board                | 10.00 Lacs          |
|      13 | Meghalaya State Waqf Board                     | 10.00 Lacs          |
|      14 | Odisha State Waqf Board                        | 9.40 Lacs           |
|      15 | Puducherry State Waqf Board                    | 3.00 Lacs           |
|      16 | Rajasthan State Waqf Board                     | 10.00 Lacs          |
|      17 | Uttarakhand State Waqf Board                   | 6.00 Lacs           |
|      18 | West Bengal State Waqf Board                   | 5.50 Lacs           |

Under  the  Scheme  of  Strengthening  of  State  Waqf  Boards,  Grants-in-aid  is provided to State Waqf Boards through NAWADCO since 2014-15. The details of funds  released  &  utilized  to  State  Waqf  Boards  in  the  year  2014-15  including State of Telangana is furnished as under:

|   S. No. | Name of State / UT       |   Funds Released &Utilized (Rs. |
|----------|--------------------------|---------------------------------|
|        1 | Andaman & Nicobar Island |                            6    |
|        2 | Andhra Pradesh*          |                           17.63 |
|        3 | Assam                    |                           10    |
|        4 | Bihar (Sunni)            |                           14.5  |
|        5 | Bihar (Shia)             |                            6    |
|        6 | Chhattisgarh             |                           14.5  |
|        7 | Dadra Nagar Haveli       |                            6    |
|        8 | Delhi                    |                           14.5  |
|        9 | Gujarat                  |                           16.99 |
|       10 | Haryana                  |                           16.99 |
|       11 | Himachal Pradesh         |                           14.5  |
|       12 | Jharkhand                |                           14.5  |
|       13 | Karnataka                |                           17.63 |
|       14 | Kerala                   |                           14.5  |
|       15 | Lakshadweep              |                            6    |
|       16 | Madhya Pradesh           |                           16.99 |
|       17 | Maharashtra              |                           17.63 |
|       18 | Manipur                  |                           10    |
|       19 | Meghalaya                |                           10    |
|       20 | Puducherry               |                            6    |
|       21 | Punjab                   |                           16.99 |
|       22 | Rajasthan                |                           16.99 |
|       23 | Tripura                  |                           10    |
|       24 | Uttar Pradesh(Sunni)     |                           17.63 |
|       25 | Uttar Pradesh(Shia)      |                           14.5  |
|       26 | Uttarakhand              |                           10.49 |
|       27 | West Bengal              |                           16.99 |

*Since, the scheme for dissolution and reconstitution of the State Waqf Boards for the States of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana has been notified vide notification dated 07.09.2015, no separate fund was released to Telangana State Waqf Board in 2014-15 as the Telangana State Waqf Board was not in existence.

# The funds for the year 2015-16 are yet to be released.

Except  above  mentioned  two  schemes,  no  other  schemes  of  this  Ministry  are implemented through Waqf Boards. The scheme of 'Nai Roshni' for Leadership Development  of  Minority  Women  is  a  Central  Sector  Scheme  implemented directly by the Ministry through selected organizations. The funds released to the selected Non Governmental Organizations, State-wise, for implementation of the Scheme of 'Nai Roshni' during last three years and current year is enclosed as Annexure-I.

(c) The Scheme of Computerisation of records of State & UT Waqf Boards is now being implemented through Central Waqf Council. Since State & UT Waqf Boards did not utilize the fund provided to them, the work of data entry of records of Waqf properties and its digitization under the scheme of 'Computerisation of records of State  &  UT  Waqf  Boards'  has  been  outsourced  to  National  Small  Industries Corporation, an undertaking of Ministry of Micro Small & Medium Enterprises by Central Waqf Council since 2013-14. Hence, no Grants-in-aid are being provided to SWBs under this scheme.

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Annexure-I

Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 2820 due for answer on 16.12.2015 raised by Dr. A. Sampath regarding 'Grants to State Waqf Boards and Minority Women'

Funds released to the Non-Governmental Organisations state-wise for Implementation of the Scheme of Leadership Development of Minority Women (Nai Roshni) during 2012-13, 2013-14 , 2014-15 and 2015-16  (As on  30/11/2015)

|                                                                                    | 2012-13                     | 2013-14                     | 2014-15                     | 2015-16                                        |
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------|-----------------------------|-----------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
| States                                                                             | Fund Release (in Rs.Crores) | Fund Release (in Rs.Crores) | Fund Release (in Rs.Crores) | Fund Release (in Rs.Crores) (As on 30.11.2015) |
| Andhra Pradesh                                                                     | -                           | 0.47                        | 0.18                        | 0.01                                           |
| Arunachal Pradesh                                                                  | -                           | 0.05                        | -                           |                                                |
| Assam                                                                              | -                           | 0.64                        | 0.78                        | 0.65                                           |
| Bihar                                                                              | -                           | 0.11                        | 0.64                        | 0.13                                           |
| Chattisgarh                                                                        | 0.5                         | 0.05                        | 0.03                        | 0.00                                           |
| Delhi                                                                              | -                           | 0.2                         | 0.28                        | 0.04                                           |
| Gujarat                                                                            | 0.25                        | 0.06                        | 0.23                        | 0.01                                           |
| Haryana                                                                            | -                           | 0.04                        | 0.09                        | 0.04                                           |
| Himanchal Pradesh                                                                  | -                           | 0.02                        | 0.04                        | 0.01                                           |
| Jammu & Kashmir                                                                    | -                           | 0.07                        | 0.09                        |                                                |
| Jharkhand                                                                          | -                           | 0.19                        | 0.15                        | 0.01                                           |
| Karnataka                                                                          | 0.22                        | 0.36                        | 0.23                        | 0.21                                           |
| Kerala                                                                             | 0.22                        | 0.1                         | 0.1                         | 0.34                                           |
| Madhya Pradesh                                                                     | 0.6                         | 0.89                        | 1.35                        | 0.57                                           |
| Maharashtra                                                                        | 0.14                        | 0.31                        | 0.31                        | 0.06                                           |
| Manipur                                                                            | 0.55                        | 0.66                        | 0.41                        | 0.14                                           |
| Nagaland                                                                           | -                           | 0.04                        | 0.17                        |                                                |
| Odissa                                                                             | 0.18                        | 0.22                        | 0.14                        | 0.26                                           |
| Punjab                                                                             | -                           | 0.25                        | 0.05                        |                                                |
| Rajasthan                                                                          | 0.58                        | 0.48                        | 0.99                        | 0.24                                           |
| Sikkim                                                                             | -                           | -                           | 0.03                        |                                                |
| Telangana                                                                          | -                           | -                           | 0.03                        | 0.03                                           |
| Tripura                                                                            | -                           | -                           | 0.12                        | 0.03                                           |
| Tamil Nadu                                                                         | 0.05                        | 0.22                        | 0.09                        | 0.03                                           |
| Uttar pradesh                                                                      | 7.09                        | 5.39                        | 6.62                        | 4.52                                           |
| Uttarakhand                                                                        | 0.55                        | 0.46                        | 0.33                        | 0.34                                           |
| West Bengal                                                                        | -                           | 0.56                        | 0.31                        | 0.48                                           |
| Total                                                                              | 10.45                       | 11.86                       | 13.78                       | 8.17                                           |
| Professional Head- Administration & management of the Scheme in the Ministry (PMU) | 0                           | 0.09                        | 0.21                        | 0.6                                            |
| Grand Total                                                                        | 10.45                       | 11.95                       | 13.99                       | 8.77                                           |