Question : MAULANA AZAD EDUCATION FOUNDATION

(a) the details of grants sanctioned by Maulana Azad Education Foundation (MAEF) to Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) which are not Muslim minority institutions/organizations, during each of the last three years and the current year, State- wise;

(b) the criteria adopted by the Government to select the organizations to which grants are sanctioned under the said schemes;

(c) whether grants to non-Muslim institutions are permissible;

(d) if so, the details of provisions thereof; and

(e) the percentage of total grants sanctioned to such organizations?

MINISTER OF STATE(INDEPENDENT CHARGE), MINISTRY OF MINORITY AFFAIRS (SALMAN KHURSHID)

(a) to (d): Maulana Azad Education Foundation sanctions grants-in-aid to Non Government Organisations (NGOs) managing institutions where, inter alia, number of beneficiaries from educationally backward minorities is more than 50% subject to other eligibility criteria, which are available on the Foundation`s website www.maef.nic.in. The grants-in-aid are sanctioned on fulfillment of the prescribed conditions and the laid down eligibility criteria and not on the basis of religious affiliation of the institution and / or of the persons managing it. The list of NGOs which have been sanctioned grants-in-aid by the Foundation is available on its website www.maef.nicin.

(e): Does not arise.