It is a programme which covers various schemes/initiatives of the participating Ministries/Departments.
It aims to ensure that the underprivileged and weaker sections of six centrally notified minority communities have equal opportunities for availing the various Government welfare Schemes and contribute to the overall socio-economic development of the Country.
Key schemes
- Pre-Matric Scholarship Scheme
- Post-Matric Scholarship Scheme
- Merit-cum- Means based Scholarship Scheme
- National Minorities Development Finance Corporation (NMDFC) Loan Schemes
- Samagra Shiksha Abhiyaan (M/o Education)
- Deen Dayal Antyodaya Yojana (DAY-NRLM)- (M/o Rural Development)
- Deen Dayal Upadhyay – Gramin Kaushalya Yojana (M/o Rural Development)
- Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana (M/o Rural Development)
- Deen Dayal Antyodaya Yojana – National Urban Livelihoods Mission (M/o Housing & Urban Affairs)
- Priority Sector Lending by Banks (Department of Financial Services)
- Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (Department of Financial Services)
- POSHAN Abhiyaan (Ministry of Women & Child Development)
- National Health Mission (Department of Health & Family Welfare)
- Ayushman Bharat (Department of Health & Family Welfare)
- National Rural Drinking Water Programme (Jal Jeevan Mission), (Department of Drinking Water & Sanitation)
Objectives:
Enhancing opportunities for education
Ensuring an equitable share for minorities in economic activities and employment, through existing and new schemes, enhanced credit support for self-employment, and recruitment to State and Central Government jobs.
Improving the conditions of living of minorities by ensuring an appropriate share for them in infrastructure development schemes.
Prevention and control of communal disharmony and violence.
