File photo: HTNew Delhi: The government has decided to offer 40% reservation for girls at 100 Navodaya-type schools and five higher education institutes it plans to set up for minority community students, Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has said. We will give 40% reservation to girls from the communities in the schools and also in the institutes. MsDP is a programme for developing infrastructure and creating assets in areas dominated by minority community with an aim to take tangible and intangible benefits to them. The minister said that the governments in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh have expressed interest in setting up the institutes for higher education. There are six notified minority communities in the country: Muslims, Buddhists, Christians, Sikhs, Parsis and Jains.

Source: Mint August 20, 2017 06:58 UTC