Scheme for Leadership Development of Minority Women

Abstract

A report of the High Level Committee on the social, economic and educational status of the Muslim community of India (popularly known as the Sachar Report) had highlighted the fact that India‟s largest minority group, the Muslim numbering 13.83 crore, have been left out of the development trajectory and within this group Muslim women are doubly disadvantaged. With this in mind, the Ministry of Women & Child Development (WCD) formulated a scheme of “Leadership development for life, livelihood and civic empowerment of minority women” in 2007-08 for ensuring that the benefits of growth reach the deprived women among the minority communities. The scheme has now been transferred to the Ministry of Minority Affairs in 2009-10.