February 2025

Covers

• Covers various schemes and initiatives for welfare of minorities of different departments and ministries.

Aim

• To ensure that the underprivileged and weaker sections of 6 centrally notified minority communities have equal opportunities for availing the various government welfare schemes
• Ensuring an equitable share for minorities in economic activities and employment
• Improving the conditions of living of minorities
• Prevention and control of communal disharmony and violence.

15 points

Ministry of Education

1. Pre-Matric Scholarship Scheme
2. Post-Matric Scholarship Scheme
3. Merit-cum- Means based Scholarship Scheme
4. Samagra Shiksha Abhiyaan (M/o Education)

Ministry of Rural Development

1. Deen Dayal Antyodaya Yojana (DAY-NRLM)- (M/o Rural Development)
2. Deen Dayal Upadhyay – Gramin Kaushalya Yojana (M/o Rural Development)
3. Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana (M/o Rural Development)

Ministry of Finance

1. Priority Sector Lending by Banks (Department of Financial Services)
2. Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (Department of Financial Services)
3. National Minorities Development Finance Corporation (NMDFC) Loan Schemes

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

1. POSHAN Abhiyaan (Ministry of Women & Child Development)
2. National Health Mission (Department of Health & Family Welfare)
3. Ayushman Bharat (Department of Health & Family Welfare)

Ministry of Jal

1. National Rural Drinking Water Programme (Jal Jeevan Mission), (Department of Drinking Water & Sanitation)

Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs

1. Deen Dayal Antyodaya Yojana – National Urban Livelihoods Mission (M/o Housing & Urban Affairs)