New Delhi: The Prime Minister's new 15
point programme for welfare of minorities will have three
additional schemes including the National Rural Drinking Water
Programme (NRDWP).
The decision to include NRDWP, Urban Infrastructure
Development Scheme for Small and Medium Towns (UIDSSMT) and
Urban Infrastructure and Governance (UIG) was taken at a
Cabinet meeting here today.
The meeting also approved inclusion of Mewat district
in place of Gurgaon, which has been bifurcated, in Haryana as
one of the minority concentration districts, Minister for
Information and Broadcasting Ambika Soni told reporters here.
She said the Cabinet also decided to include MPs and
MLAs in the state and district level committees to monitor the
implementation of the 15-point programme.
This modification would also make them members in the
state and district level committees for implementation of
Multi-Sectoral Development Programme (MSDP), Soni said.
The Minister also gave figures showing steady increase
in the recruitment of minorities in the Central Government and
the Public Sector Undertakings since issuance of government
guidelines in 2007.
Bureau Report
First Published: Thursday, October 22, 2009, 20:33