UPA restructures minority welfare scheme

LUCKNOW: Instead of developing minority concentration districts, the central government is now aiming for development of minority concentration blocks. With Lok Sabha elections a few months away, the Central government has restructured one of its ambitious minority welfare scheme — the Multi Sectoral Development Programme (MSDP) - to reach out to maximum "targeted minorities".

The union ministry of minority affairs has brought 144 blocks and 18 towns of 45 districts of UP under the restructured MSDP. The scheme was initiated in Eleventh Five Year Plan all over the country. In the 12th Plan, the centre has restructured MSDP for sharper focus on monority concentration areas.

The centre has changed the `unit area of planning' to blocks/towns instead of minority concentration districts. Besides, clusters of contiguous minority concentration villages, having at least 50% minority population, would also be identified.
Since 2007-08, MSDP was covering 21 minority concentrated districts in UP. In 2012-13, 16 more districts were brought within its fold. This year, the number has been increased to 45 districts. "The programme will now be implemented at the block level," said sources in UP minority welfare department.

To run the programme till 2016-17, GoI has released Rs 946 crore (approx.). "Though the programme aims at developing minority concentration clusters, it does not bar people from other faiths to be partakers in the benefits," added sources.

MSDP is meant to develop minority concentration districts. The blocks with 25% or more of a minority population are chosen under the programme for development with respect to education, infrastructure, health and housing facilities. GoI sanctioned Rs 1015.70 crore to UP under MSDP during the eleventh five year plan for development in chosen 21 districts.

The components of MSDP include Indira Awas Yojna, installing handpumps, constructing Primary Health centres (PHCs), constructing government inter colleges and polytechnics and adding classrooms in inter collges, high school and primary schools, building `aaganwadi' centres and ITIs.

The backwardness parameters adopted for identification of backward districts are literacy rate; female literacy rate;work participation rate; and percentage of households with pucca walls; percentage of households with safe drinking water; percentage of households with electricity.

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