The work on a world-class educational institute for the poor, backward and minorities in Rajasthan's Alwar district will begin from October 1, Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi announced Tuesday.
Naqvi, while chairing the general and governing body meeting of the Maulana Azad Education Foundation here, said that the educational institution, being set up in Alwar, will start functioning in 2020.
For the educational institute, the Rajasthan government has given 15 acres of land in Kohrapipali village, the minister was quoted as saying in a statement from his office.
The foundation stone of the institute for the poor, backward and minorities will be laid in Alwar on October 1, he said.
World-class research centres, labs, libraries, educational facilities for primary to higher studies and sports facilities will be established there, he said.
Naqvi said that these world-class facilities will provide education in technical and medical fields, including Ayurveda and Unani, along with job-oriented skill development courses.
"We have proposed 40 per cent reservation for girls in these institutions," Naqvi said.
A three-member committee of the ministry's officials and members of the Maulana Azad Education Foundation has been constituted to chalk out the entire project.
Soon, the detailed project report (DPR) will be prepared regarding construction and other process for the institute, the statement said.
The Minority Affairs Ministry had worked out a plan a year ago to establish world class educational institutes for poor, backward and minorities, and a 11-member committee, headed by former secretary of the Indian government Afzal Amanullah, had been constituted in this regard.
In the meeting chaired by Naqvi, various schemes for educational empowerment of minorities such as 'Begum Hazrat Mahal Girls Scholarship' and 'Gharib Nawaz Kaushal Vikas Yojana' were reviewed.
Naqvi said that during the past about four years, the government's 'empowerment without appeasement' policy has ensured that a record about three crore students belonging to poor and weaker sections of minority communities have benefitted from various scholarship programmes. The beneficiaries include about 1.63 crore girls, the statement said.
The minister said that the school dropout rate among Muslim girls, which was earlier more than 70 per cent, has now been reduced to about 35-40 per cent due to the awareness and educational empowerment programmes of the government.
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