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Union Petroleum and Steel minister Dharmendra Pradhan has urged the Centre for setting up a hostel for girl students belonging to minority communities under a central scheme. In a letter to Union Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi,Pradhan highlighted the need for establishing the hostel for minority girl students studying in senior school or colleges in Bhubaneswar.
He also requested Naqvi to issue instructions for making provisions to cover major cities, besides the state capital, under the PMJVK scheme so that priority sectors are made available in the metropolitan cities as well. Presently the Ministry of Minority Affairs (MoMA) sanctions projects under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Vikas Karyakram (PMJVK) only in identified Minority Concentration Areas where there is more than 25 per cent minority population and the area is relatively backward in socio-economic and basic amenities parameters as compared to the national average, he said.
