Centre will launch Progress Panchayat for minorities today to reach out to the minority communities and publicize the various welfare measures taken by the NDA government for their betterment. Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi will kickstart the programme from Mewat region of Haryana. The programme will be organized in 100 places across the country in the coming days where Union Ministers will interact with people about the several schemes. <br/><br/>Talking to AIR, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said through the programme, the government will seek feedback and suggestions from the people for better implementation of the welfare schemes. Mr. Naqvi also asserted that it is an effort towards development of minorities and not for the vote bank. The special outreach programme comes days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's remark about empowering a minority community and not treating it as item of the vote market.

Centre will launch Progress Panchayat today to reach out to the minority community and publicize the various welfare measures taken by the NDA government for their betterment.<br/><br/>Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi will kickstart the programme from Mewat region of Haryana. The programme will be organized in 100 places across the country in the coming days where Union Ministers will interact with people about the several schemes. <br/><br/>Talking to AIR, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said during the programme, the government will seek feedback and suggestions from the people for better implementation of the welfare schemes. Mr. Naqvi also asserted that it is an effort towards development of minorities and not for the vote bank. <br/><br/>The special outreach programme comes days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's remarks quoting BJP idealogue Deen Dayal Upadhyay during party meet in Kerala, that the community must be empowered and not treated only as items of the vote market.