By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent,
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday said that his government is committed to improving the social and economic status of the Muslims and for this, adequate budgetary provisions had been made and several welfare schemes had been set rolling.
The Chief Minister said this while addressing a mammoth gathering as chief guest at the Tal Katora stadium's auditorium, New Delhi at the 'Historic Conference' under the aegis of Jamat Ulema-e-Hind.
He further stated that many surveys and reports of commissions had bared the fact that the Muslims were socially and economically backward. My government, Yadav said was hence committed to assimilating the minority community in the social mainstream.
He pointed out how Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav had worked seriously on recommendations made by the Sachar and Rangnath Mishra committee and the state government was exploring ways to implement them and would exert pressure on the union government for their early implementation.
The CM also used the occasion to stress the need of communal harmony and urged the gathering to work in harmony with the Hindus so that prosperity came to everyone. He said that it was a socialist resolve to allowed stand against injustice and assured the audience that no one would be allowed harasses any innocent under the garb of terrorism and said that cases slapped on Muslim youth were being studied carefully and that adequate steps would be taken in this direction.
Akhilesh also underlined the resolve of the entire nation to stand united against the scourge of terror and lauded the role of the Muslims in the development of the nation. He pointed out how many Muslims played a major role in handicrafts and informed that it was for this reason that his government has decided that 60 percent of the sarees to be distributed to the poor women would be purchased from Muslim brothers and weavers.
The CM also said that to encourage the minorities into education and to benefit those deprived of education more schools would be opened in the Muslim dominated areas and budgetary provisions for this have been already made. In the tablet, PCs and laptops to be given free of cost to class X and class XII pass out students, users would be able to write in English, Hindi and Urdu, he informed.