Minority student scholarship is to go up more than three times. Minister of Law, Justice and Minority Affairs Salman Khurshid has said that the centre is thinking of increasing the number of beneficiaries from the current level of 50 lakh to one crore sixty lakh during the 12th plan.
Addressing the Minority Cell leaders of the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee in Kochi last evening, Khurshid said the government has decided in principle to adopt the Kerala model of reservation for minorities in central government jobs.
He said an effective anti-corruption bill will be introduced in the next session of parliament. The government is also planning to bring in electoral reforms that bars a person involved in heinous crimes from contesting the polls. It is also contemplating state funding of elections to check the flow of black money.