Minority welfare: UPA government faulted on poor implementation

The BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi has also targeted the central government during his election campaign for not running these schemes properly. Activists have also criticised the government often for the same reason.

The government initiated these schemes -- specially focussed at 90 Minority Concentrated Districts in the country where the minority population exceeds 25 percent -- after the Sachar panel submitted its recommendations in 2006 on measures needed to uplift the lot of the minority communities in the country.

The report noted that a high drop-out rate of Muslim youth from educational institutions affects their chances in the job market.

On the establishment of Integrated Child Development Services/Anganwadi centres, it says that since 2009-10, "there has been decline in the establishment of number of Anganwadi centres."

When it comes to healthcare, the report states that Muslims "lag behind even from the Scheduled Castes in terms of access to amenities."