The Prime Minister’s New 15 Point Programme for the welfare of Minorities was announced in June, 2006. It provides programme specific interventions, with definite goals which are to be achieved in a specific time frame. The objectives of the programme are: a.) Enhancing opportunities for education, b.) Ensuring an equitable share for minorities in economic activities and employment, through existing and new schemes, enhanced credit support for self-employment, and recruitment to State and Central Government jobs; c.) Improving the conditions of living of minorities by ensuring an appropriate share for them in infrastructure development schemes; and d.) Prevention and control ....
