<span style="color: #222222;">Minister for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi today said that the Government has built large scale infrastructure for socio-economic and educational activities and skill development projects on Waqf properties across the country.<br />''<br />''He said, the government's diligent campaign of digitisation of Waqf records has made a large number of these Waqf properties free from the clutches of vested interests and Waqf mafia. Mr Naqvi said this while addressing the &nbsp;orientation programme organised by Central Waqf Council for officials of State Waqf Boards in New Delhi today. <br />''<br />''Mr. Naqvi said that during the last 6 years, the Government has developed socio-economic-educational and employment oriented infrastructure across the country in Minority concentrated areas.<br />''<br />''These projects include one thousand 527 New School Buildings; 22 thousand 877 Additional Class Rooms , 163 Residential Schools, 32 Colleges; 95 ITIs; 13 Polytechnics and &nbsp;6 Navodaya Vidyalayas, 22 Working Women Hostels, one thousand 926 Health Projects, 5 Hospitals.<br />''<br />''Mr Naqvi &nbsp;also said that the Central Government will provide adequate financial assistance to construct infrastructure for socio-economic and educational activities on Waqf properties in Jammu-Kashmir and Leh-Kargil under "Pradhanmantri Jan Vikas Karykram".</span><br />
News On AIR | January 28, 2021 4:51 PM
Centre will provide adequate financial assistance to waqf properties in J&K, Leh-Kargil: Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi