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| Govt can't ask India Inc to give jobs to minorities | 13-JUL-09 |
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| The Companies Act does not empower the government to advise India Inc to provide jobs to minorities, but the corporates should take the initiative on their own, Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid informed Lok Sabha today. |
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| PSBs' lending to minorities grows 39.6% in FY09 | 10-JUL-09 |
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| Lending by public sector banks (PSBs) to minority communities increased 39.6 per cent to Rs 82,864 crore at the end of March 2009 from Rs 58,662 crore a year ago, reflecting the government’s priority to ensure the smooth flow of credit to these social groups. |
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| Budgetary allocation fails to cheer Muslim leaders | 08-JUL-09 |
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| The 74 per cent budgetary allocation hike to Rs 1,740 crore for minorities has failed to cheer Muslim leaders in Uttar Pradesh, which accounts for the largest chunk of the community in India. |
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| Khurseed keen on setting up Equal Opportunity Commission for minorities | 19-JUN-09 |
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| Terming the establishment of Equal Opportunity Commission (EOC) a "commitment" of the new government, Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khursheed today said the ministry wants it to be set up soon despite objections to its formation by some other Central government commissions. |
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| Steps taken to restore normalcy in Kandhamal not enough: NCM | 15-JUN-09 |
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| The National Commission for Minorities today said the Orissa government had failed to take "enough" steps to restore normalcy in Kandhamal district where communal riots had broken out in December 2007 and again in August 2008. "Steps taken to restore complete normalcy in Kandhamal are not enough though the situation there has improved," NCM Vice-Chairman M P Pinto told reporters after meeting Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. |
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| Sachar's back | 28-MAY-09 |
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| Now that the UPA is back in power, many are expecting it will start implementing the Sachar Committee recommendations. An advertisement in the The Indian Express expresses this quite openly. The advertisement, called ‘Muslims in Union Cabinet’ has been issued by the presidents of the Zakat Foundation of India and the Religious & Linguistic Minorities Association, among others. It congratulates the UPA for being able to form a new secular, democratic government and points out that there was just one Muslim minister among those sworn in during the first round. Given that there are likely to be 67 members in the Cabinet, the advertisement says, there should be at least 11 Muslim ministers. This will be in keeping, the ad says, ‘with Sachar Committee recommendation and in fulfillment of the commitment made by the UPA chairperson and the Prime Minister for a fair representation of minorities at all levels’. |
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| Sreelatha Menon: Test-tube babies | 27-JUL-08 |
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| Improvements in existing schools will help girls more than the segregation of the dropouts among them in a common basket called KGBV.
Targeted schemes tend to subject beneficiaries to a treatment |
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| AP focuses on making minorities employable | 08-JUL-08 |
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The Andhra Pradesh government, which has launched an initiative to create more job opportunities for students belonging to the minority groups like schedule caste, other backward classes and schedule tribes in the information technology sector, is planning to start similar programmes for arts and science graduates as well. |
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