MINISTER OF MINORITY AFFAIRS (SHRI SALMAN KHURSHID)
(a) to (e): A Statement is laid on the Table of the House.
A Statement referred in the reply to (a) to (e) for Lok Sabha Starred
Question No 140 asked by Shri Ashok Tanwar and Shri Jagdish Thakor
regarding welfare of Minority women to be answered on 22nd March 2012.
(a) The following schemes are implemented by the Ministry of Minority
Affairs exclusively for minorities which concern welfare of minority women
including Muslims:
(i) Pre-matric Scholarship Scheme:-Under this Scheme, scholarships are
awarded to minority students who have secured not less than 50% marks in the
previous final examination and the annual income of their parents/ guardian
from all sources does not exceed Rs. 1.00 lakh. 30% of the scholarships are
earmarked for girl students.
(ii) Post-matric Scholarship Scheme:- Under this Scheme, scholarships
are awarded to minority students who have secured not less than 50% marks
or equivalent grade in the previous final examination and the annual income
of whose parents/ guardian from all sources does not exceed Rs.2.00 lakh.
30% of the scholarships are earmarked for girl students.
(iii) Maulana Azad National Fellowship For Minority Students:-The
objective of the Fellowship is to provide integrated five year
fellowships in the form of financial assistance to minority students
to pursue higher studies such as M.Phil and Ph.D. The Fellowship covers
all Universities/Institutions recognized by the University Grants
Commission (UGC). 30% of the scholarships are earmarked for girl students.
(iv) Merit-cum Means based Scholarship: The Merit-cum Means based
Scholarship Scheme provides financial assistance to the poor and
meritorious minority students at graduate and post-graduate levels.
30% of the scholarships are earmarked for girl students.
(v) Free Coaching and Allied Scheme: Under the scheme candidates
belonging to the minority students, financial assistance to the coaching
institutes in Government and the private sector for imparting free
coaching/training to these candidates for Competitive Exams, Information
Technology, Remedial coaching and other employment oriented courses etc.
30% of the scholarships are earmarked for girl students.
(vi) National Minorities Development & Finance Corporation (NMDFC)
implements the micro financing scheme which specifically focuses on
women belonging to minority community Self Help Groups (SHGs). Women
constitute over 90% of the beneficiaries under this micro financing scheme.
Under skill development, NMDFC is implementing the Scheme of Mahila
Samridhi Yojana exclusively for women. This scheme is meant for
providing training cum credit for poor minority women. Under the
NMDFC skill development programme including Mahila Samridhi Yojana,
instead of allocation of funds, targets are assigned in terms of
number of persons to be trained.
The National Minorities Development and Finance Corporation (NMDFC)
also extends concessional loans for self employment and income
generating activities to the persons belonging to minority communities
including women. Under the term loan scheme of NMDFC, loans are
extended to the individuals belonging to Minorities to the tune of
maximum Rs. 5.00 Lakhs. Over 35% of the beneficiaries under this
scheme are women.
NMDFC has a scheme of Vocational Training where 85% grant of the
training cost to the maximum of Rs. 1,000 per month per candidate
for courses of maximum duration of 6 months plus a stipend of
Rs. 500 per month is given to the candidates including minority
girls / women.
(b) to (d) : The funds allocated, spent and achievements against the
targets set during the last three years including the current year are
given below:
(i) The amount released under the Pre-Matric Scholarship Scheme,
Post Matric Scholarship Scheme and Maulana Azad National Fellowship
together with percentage of scholarships availed by girl students are
at Annex I to VI.
(ii) The financial and physical achievement under the Merit –cum–
Means Scholarship Scheme, Free Coaching and Allied Scheme and the
NMDFC skill development programme including Mahila Samridhi Yojana
is at Annex-VII.
(iv) Funds allocated, spent (disbursed) and achievements (utilization)
made during the last three years under the lending schemes of term loans
and micro finance of NMDFC is at Annex –VIII.
(v) A table showing State wise achievements of training imparted to
women beneficiaries for the last three years and the current financial
year is at Annex- IX.
(e) The Ministry is taking various steps for the effective implementation
of these schemes which include:
(i) For effective monitoring of the Multi- sectoral Development Programme,
the Ministry conducts regular review of the progress with the States/UTs. The
Oversight Committee at the centre reviews the implementation periodically.
In addition, the State and District level committees review the implementation
of the programme.
(ii) Online Scholarship Management System (OSMS) was introduced in 2011-12
for Merit-cum-Means scholarship for better transparency and accountability.
(iii) A team of empanelled National Level Monitors appointed by the
National Productivity Council have undertaken physical visits to the
various districts to monitor the schemes implemented by the Ministry.
