{"id":20465,"date":"2017-01-17T14:21:52","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T14:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=20465"},"modified":"2017-01-17T14:21:52","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T14:21:52","slug":"annual-conference-state-minorities-commissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/annual-conference-state-minorities-commissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Conference of State Minorities Commissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question: Who is the current chairman of the National Minority Commission?<\/strong><br \/>\na) Naseem Ahmad<br \/>\nb) S Y Quereshi<br \/>\nc) R C Lahoti<br \/>\nd) Maneka Gandhi<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (a)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On 17th January, 2017 The Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Minority Affairs &amp; Parliamentary Affairs, Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi inaugurated the Annual Conference of State Minorities Commissions at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi.<\/li>\n<li>Minority Affairs Ministry has started several welfare schemes for socio-economic-educational empowerment of Minorities to ensure that Minorities have been moving forward on the path of development.<\/li>\n<li>PM\u2019s new 15-point programme\u201d, \u201cNai Manzil\u201d, \u201cNai Raushni\u201d, \u201cSeekho aur Kamao\u201d, \u201cUstaad\u201d, \u201cPre-metric and Post-metric scholarships\u201d schemes have benefitted all the Minorities.<\/li>\n<li>Ministry of Minority Affairs will establish 5 world class educational institutions to provide better traditional and modern education to students belonging to Minority communities. A high-level committee has been constituted for this purpose.<\/li>\n<li>Begam Hajrat Mahal Girls Scholarship\u201d and \u201cGarib Nawaz Skill Development Centres have also been decided to be started.<\/li>\n<li>Centre has also approved about 200 \u201cSadbhav Mandap\u201d and 16 \u201cGurukul\u201d type of schools with a cost of about Rs 262 crore. The Minister informed that welfare schemes-programmes of the Ministry of Minority Affairs have been made \u201c100 per cent digital\u201d which has ensured transparency in these schemes.<\/li>\n<li>National Minority Commission chairman Shri Naseem Ahmad briefed that only 82 petitions were pending disposal out of 1288 petitions received, by the end of December 2016.<\/li>\n<li>He also informed that commission\u2019s Members regularly visit their allotted states to hear the grievances of minority communities and to monitor the implementation of various minority welfare schemes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=157392\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=157392<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mukhtarabbasnaqvi.in\/Pressdtl.aspx?ID=10985&amp;cat=Press\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/mukhtarabbasnaqvi.in\/Pressdtl.aspx?ID=10985&amp;cat=Press<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Who is the current chairman of the National Minority Commission? a) Naseem Ahmad b) S Y Quereshi c) R C Lahoti d) Maneka Gandhi Ans: (a) Related facts: On 17th January, 2017 The Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Minority Affairs &amp; Parliamentary Affairs, Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi inaugurated the Annual Conference of State [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1155],"tags":[2334],"class_list":["post-20465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conference","tag-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}