Prime Minister’s New 15 point Programme for minorities is a programme launched by Indian government for welfare of religious minorities in furtherance of reports by committees such as the Sachar Committee Report[1] that highlighted that minorities, especially Muslims, in the country were often in a worse socio-economic and political condition than communities such as the Scheduled Casts and Scheduled tribes communities that have been oppressed over millennia through the caste system (also referred to as the varna system). It pegged the status of minorities on various indicators such as nutrition, health, education et al. of minorities and specially Muslims at an abysmally poor level. The 15 point program was the government's response to these finding by laying down guidelines to target minorities in schemes and entitlements that are already in place and designing and executing new schemes aimed at the empowerment of these groups. [2][3] The programme advocated allocating 15% of plan outlays of welfare schemes identified under the 15 point programme. Mainly, issues of education, credit, housing, employment and communal harmony fall under its ambit.[4]
^Sachar. "Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India" (PDF). mhrd.gov.in/.
^BJP CMs deride plan to divide social fabric. Economic Times. 20 December 2007.
^PM Manmohan Singh broke Indian law by trying to woo non-Hindu voters in Gujarat? Archived 2007-12-10 at the Wayback Machine. India Daily. 9 December 2007.
^Rahman, Abdur (2018). Denial and Deprivation: Indian Muslims after the Sachar Committee and Rangnath Mishra Commission Reports. Routledge. p. 298. doi:10.4324/9780429058202/denial-deprivation-abdur-rahman.
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