The Union Government of India has allocated Rs.65,869 crore for the sector in the Union budget for 2013-14, an increase of a little over 7% from 2012-2013.
“Finance Minister P. Chidambaram has allocated Rs. 3,511 crore to the Minorities Affairs Ministry, an increase of 12 per cent over the last fiscal. The enhanced amount was allocated in spite of the Ministry failing to utilise the funds provided to it in last year’s budget…..
Under the Minority Affairs Ministry, the Maulana Azad Education Foundation, which is the main vehicle to implement educational schemes and channelize funds to NGOs for the minorities, was allocated Rs. 160 crore, which will add to its present corpus of Rs. 750 crore.
Accepting the proposal by the foundation to initiate medical aid, Mr. Chidambaram allocated Rs. 100 crore to launch the initiative…..”
“Contrary to popular perception, Christian NGOs receive maximum foreign funding. While Christian NGOs have received over Rs 10,000 crore, Muslim institutions have got around Rs 300 crore, and Sikh NGOs accepted even smaller funding at around Rs 22 crore.(Times of India )”
Now the Government of India is planning to infuse Rs.12,000 Crores to Muslim Education.
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his time a huge fund of Rs 12,000-18,000 (3 billion US $) are being ready by central govt to boost up the Education of the Muslim minorities (touching 20% of total population of India) mainly through Madrasas, Islamic Colleges, Universities, Islamic Seminaries, Islamic Education Foundations, NGOs – all set to establish a Islamic State in India in the same way of Aligarh and Deoband Movement.
The other constitutional minorities like Sikh (1.9%) Buddhists (0.8%), Jains (0.5%), Parsis (negligible) are striving to maintain their educational institutions but not getting any privilege as such as they are not communal like Muslims and do not posses any ‘Vote Bank’ rather.
The Centre on Sunday said it will soon announce a special fund to the tune of US$ 3 billion for upliftment of the Muslim people by providing infrastructure, mainly for education.(struggle for hindu existence.com)
India, Home of the Hindus?
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