welfare budget: Telangana polls: Congress releases 'Minority Declaration', promises Rs 4,000 crore budget for welfare
Congress promised Rs 1,000 crore per annum to provide subsidised loans to jobless minority youth and women. Under the Abdul Kalam Taufa-e-Taleem Scheme, the party said it would provide financial assistance of Rs five lakh to Muslim, Christian, Sikh, and other minority youths upon completing M.Phil and Ph.D programmes, it said.