Schemes for Upliftment of Minorities

 The details of budget allocation and expenditure on schemes for upliftment of minorities, for the last five years, year-wise are:

                                                                                                                                   (Rs. in crore)

Year	Budgetary Allocation		Expenditure	%  of Utilization with reference to
	Budget Estimates	Revised Estimates		Budget Estimates	Revised Estimates
2009-10	1740.00	1740.00	1709.41	98.24	98.24
2010-11	2600.00	2500.00	2008.15	77.24	80.33
2011-12	2850.00	2750.00	2283.16	80.11	83.02
2012-13	3135.00	2200.00	2157.98	68.84	98.09
2013-14	3511.00	3111.00	3007.49	85.66	96.67

The main reasons for not utilizing the full allocation are:

·            Non-submission of viable and adequate proposals by the State Governments/UT Administrations and delay in submission of Utilization Certificates by them.

·            Promulgation of modal code of conduct due to assembly elections in several States which delayed sanction of funds

·            Insufficient proposals received from States and UTs especially form North Eastern States.

·            As a result, the utilized funds for North East had to be surrendered as per the existing provision.

It may be seen from the above that the budgetary allocation on schemes for upliftment of minorities has steadily increased during the last five years.

             Receipt of proposals from State Governments regarding implementation of welfare schemes for minorities is a continuous process. No proposals from the State Government of Tamil Nadu for implementation of welfare schemes for minorities are pending with this Ministry.

            This was stated by Dr. Najma A. Heptulla, the Minister of Minority Affairs in Lok Sabha Yesterday.

Courtesy: pib.nic.in