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 Dear Friends

I would like to find out how many of you approve this case of blatant

minority appeasement. Do you think this is unfairly against the

majority community? please post your messages.

Mumbai: Keeping an eye on the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections the

Congress-led Maharashtra government on Wednesday sanctioned Rs 110

crore to be spent on eight different schemes for educational and

economic uplift of the minorities that constitute 20% of the state's

10 crore population.

The educational schemes will see spending of Rs 4, 31,000 on school

uniform project for students up to Std. 7th. The students will be

provided annually two sets of uniform free of cost. Besides, 1,553

schools which have more than 70% students from the minority

communities will be given Rs 31.06 crore for infrastructure and basic

amenities such as renovation of school buildings, water supply,

computer labs and toilets.

To check dropout rate of minority community students their parents

will be given daily encouragement allowance of Rs 2 per child.

The government has proposed to give the students doing professional

courses such as engineering, medicine, MBA, MCR and CA etc a

scholarship of Rs 25,000. Under the scheme 21,748 students whose

families' annual income is below Rs 2.50 lakh will be benefited.

To ensure more job opportunities in commercial sectors for minority

students the government will introduce for them the vocational courses

in mall, computer, mobile, plumbing and television repair etc. At

least 2,000 scholarships will be provided through Maulana Azad

Alpsankhayak Arthik Vikas Mahamandal.

The government has reserved Rs 18.93 crore for the minority-dominated

areas to create better infrastructure and more basic facilities.

Moreover, the government is intending to conduct a thorough research

into the problems which the minorities are facing so that they may be

efficiently tackled in future. It will spend Rs 59 lakh on it.

To make available more information about the schemes and as to how to

take its benefit the government will set up a helpline at the cost of

Rs 25 lakh, which is likely to be operated by the Minority Commission.