Addressing a press conference here,Union Minority Affairs minister Najma Heptulla here today said that the focus would be mainly on rehabilitation of flood victims, who have been rendered homeless and have no source of income.
She said that the rehabilitation package would include skill development of the young victims, the re-construction of schools, toilets and told that the scholarships for Kashmiris have also been increased.
The Union minister was here at the Portmore Girls Senior secondary school to launch the much-awaited minimum monthly pension of Rs 1,000 and a higher wage ceiling of Rs 15,000 for social security schemes run by Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO)
She said the central government would go in for the development of six lakh acre land of Waqf Trust for the minorities and a drive would be launched to remove all the encroachments on Waqf lands.
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The economic activity generated on these lands would help in earning Rs 1200 to Rs 2000 crore annually, she stressed.
She said the Narendra Modi government at the Center has started various schemes for the upliftment of the minority community and the endeavor is to bring the minorities into mainstream through schemes like USTAD (Up gradation of Skill and Training of Traditional Artists), Nayee Roshni, Nayee Manzil and help minority children catch up with times by modernizing the 'madarsas'.
"Quran in one hand and computer in the other" is the motto, she said.