New Born National Monitoring Committee for Minorities Holds First Meet NMCM Assess Gains and Reviews Planning Process

for Ministry of Minority Affairs | Date - 26-02-2014


its first meeting here on 12thFebruary,2014under the chairmanship of Union Minister of Minority Affairs, NMCMseventy two experts in minority related the Ministry has already entered in to its 9th year of establishment, need fora Monitoring Committee was being felt for National Monitoring Committeeis toassess the achievements and review its planning process, , strategies and implementation process over a period of time.

K. Khan said that diversity is country’s strength and -diversity must be respected and protective.

and schemes to bridge the development deficit in minority concentration areas as raised in Committee recommendations.

Development ()Under , the unit of planning. during 12thPlan.

: Rs. 3733.90

:Rs. 2935.93

: Rs. 2286.25

:Rs. 1385.52

education among children of notified minority communities, sustain their effort to complete school education, to increase their rate of attainment in higher education and enhance their , Post – and Merit-cum Means Scholarship schemes, since 11th Plan so far, 2.96 Scholarships have been awarded and Rs. 5412.49 have been released.

Scholarship Scheme (introduced 2008-09), the coverage has increased 13 times while under Post- Scholarship (introduced 2007-08), this increase is more than 33 times.The coverage of beneficiaries under Merit-cum-Means based Scholarship has increased 4 times since its introduction in 2007-08.

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