National President of All India Jain Minority Federation Lalit Gandhi has said that the state government had reacted positively to the demand for the creation of Lord Rushabdev Jain Virdham for Jain monks and to consider the establishment of Jain Development Council for Development and Welfare Had agreed to. Community.
Addressing reporters here on Tuesday, Lalit Gandhi said that a federation delegation had recently had a fruitful conversation with Minority Welfare and Textiles Minister Shrimant Balasaheb Patil and that the state government had given permission for the creation of Vihaadham and the Constitution The Development Council had agreed.
Praising the BJP-led state government for being number one in implementing minority welfare schemes in the country, he said that many demands had been met earlier by the state government.
Mr. Lalit Gandhi said that the federation has appealed to the state government to help the young entrepreneurs of the Minorities Committee to set up startups to implement the loan schemes of the National Minorities Development and Finance Corporation (NMDFC) of the central government.
Statue maintenance
Mr. Lalit Gandhi said that during various excavations, the Archaeological Survey of India was locating various statues related to Jainism and the statues were being kept in the repository. He said, “Our religious practices are different and if the idols are given to us, we will worship them and maintain them properly as per the rules of ASI.”
He said that there were several targets in the 2011 census regarding the computation of the population of Jains in the country. The 2011 census recorded only 45 lakh Jains in the country, while in fact there were more than two crore Jains in the country. He said that the mention of sub-castes and gotras in the data sheet may be due to incorrect calculation and community members have been appealed to mention Jains in the Dharma Pillar during the 2021 census.
Shri Lalit Gandhi said that the federation had also demanded an increase in the income limit under the reservation policy so that members of the community would benefit. “However, the government is reluctant because it would mean more money allocation,” he said.
Regarding the annual income limit of ₹ 8 lakh for the beneficiaries under the 10% reservation for economically weaker communities of the upper caste, he said that the federation’s demand for an increase in the income limit was based on the same criteria.
Jain community leader Mahendra Singhi said that since there was no one from the community in the state and central cabinets, he sought representation in the cabinet for elected representatives of the community.
Emphasizing the need to include the community under the 2B category of Other Backward Classes in Karnataka, he said that they had to fight with 42 different communities for a 5% share in reservation under the 3B category.
Federation’s National Secretary Sandeep Bandhari was present.
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