New Delhi: Narendra Modi- led Bharatiya Janata Party’s
Ministry Of Minority Affairs has used 98 percent of its funds in 2015-16 budget
sessions in its several schemes and plans. Minister Nazma Heptullah, who is the
chief of MEA, said: “the expenditure
of our ministry in the financial year 2015-16 was not only 20% higher than the
preceding fiscal, but for the first time in the history of the ministry there
was no cut imposed in the revised estimate of the planned budget.”
Reports are that the
External Affairs Ministry has received Rs 3827.25 crore in the 2016-17 general budgets,
a rise of Rs 89.25 crore over the previous fiscal. The MEA department of
Heptullah had introduced series of welfare plans and programs including computerization
of records of state WAKF Boards, the scheme of leadership development of
minority women, programs for skill development, coaching for civil services
aspirants and providing educational loans to students of minority communities
and more.
Apart from this, ‘Hamari Dharohar’, a scheme to preserve
the heritage works, actions and traditions of the minority communities of
India, was one among the notable schemes by the ministry. Following the full
usage of funds by the MEA, Heptullah asserted that the earlier governments and
the officials in the department were not able to use the entire fund allocated
to them due to proper planning, implementation and monitoring of the announced
schemes.
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