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Centre will provide adequate financial assistance to waqf properties in J&K, Leh-Kargil: Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi

<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  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  6 Navodaya Vidyalayas, 22 Working Women Hostels, one thousand 926 Health Projects, 5 Hospitals.<br />''<br />''Mr Naqvi  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 />

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