The government has decided to offer 40 per cent reservation for girls at 100 Navodaya-type schools. The Minister of State for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said the government is mulling to open 100 Navodaya-type schools in minority concentrated areas of the country.<br/><br/>Mr Naqvi said, the reservation will also be applicable in five higher education institutes, planed by the government, for minority community students. <br/><br/>A high-level panel formed by the Maulana Azad Education Foundation, a government-funded agency, had in its report recently recommended a three-tier model to tackle educational backwardness among minorities, particularly the Muslims.<br/><br/>The panel had said the proposed schools could work on the patterns of Kendriya Vidayala or Navodaya Vidyalaya.<br/>Naqvi said the schools will most probably be commissioned next year in buildings developed under the multi-sectoral development programme.