New Delhi, April 22 (Inditop.com) The government has spent over Rs.1,710 crore towards minority welfare in the last financial year, parliament was told Thursday.
Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid informed the Lok Sabha that 98 percent of the Rs.1,740 crore was released to the state governments and implementing agencies for various schemes and programmes for minority welfare.
Of India’s 1.2 billion population, Muslims are the largest minority at 14 percent, followed by Christians at 2.3 percent, Sikhs 1.9 percent, Buddhists 0.8 per cent, Jains at 0.4 percent and others, including Parsis, at 0.6 percent.
