'Hunar Haat' paves job opportunities for 50 lakh minority youths: Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi

New Delhi, December 10: Union Minister for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has said that the employment and employment opportunities have been provided to about 50 lakh youths of minority communities through "Hunar Haat" and other skill development schemes.

Chairing the General Body and Governing Body of Maulana Azad Education Foundation (MAEF), Naqvi said that a large number of youth from minority communities has been getting employment and employment opportunities through GST Facilitator course.

He added that they are helping small, medium enterprises and also big business groups. Similarly, “Sanitary Supervisors are getting jobs in different sanitation projects across the country. Lakhs of toilets, cleanliness centres, health centres are being constructed under Swachh Bharat Abhiyan and these Sanitary Supervisors are also strengthening the cleanliness campaign”, Naqvi said.

The Minister said that the effective mission of educational empowerment and skill development of the minority communities is fulfilling the commitment of the Government led by the PM Modi, to the “Development with Dignity” of minorities.

Naqvi pointed out that the Minority Affairs Ministry is spending more than 65 per cent of its total budget on the schemes aimed at educational empowerment and skill development of the youth belonging to the minority communities.

He particularly mentioned various scholarship schemes, schemes for financial assistance for competitive exams, "Begum Hazrat Mahal Girls Scholarship has proved to be an important step towards the educational empowerment of minority communities. More than 1.5 crore students have been given various scholarships by the Ministry of Minority Affairs during the last 3 years. More than 3 lakh applications have been received for "Begum Hazrat Mahal Girls Scholarship", the Minister said.

In the meeting, Naqvi particularly emphasised that all the schemes should be effectively implemented at the ground level, so that the benefits of all these schemes reach to every needy person of the society.

The Minister added that he himself has been monitoring all the educational empowerment and skill development programmes. “Any negligence in implementation of these schemes will not be tolerated”, he added.