Nai Manzil

It was launched on August 2015 in order to promote a holistic development of the minority community through an integrated education and livelihood initiative. The World Bank is partnering with Ministry of Minority Affairs by providing technical assistance, which includes 50% of the scheme’s budget.

• The primary objective of the scheme is to provide education bridge program to eligible minority youth, to obtain open schooling certification of class 8th / 10^th, impart high quality skill training including soft skills leading to productive employment and to provide job placement support to assist sustainable employment to those students who opt to the labor market.

Performance of the Scheme (2018-19)

• 95966 students were enrolled till date.
• 51.8% female enrolled 29.5% of beneficiaries were enrolled in Open Basis Education (OBE).
• 70.5% of beneficiaries were enrolled in Secondary Education.
• 42,522 beneficiaries were skills certified.
• 13,574 were employed.

Suggestions to make the Program More Effective

Proper information dissemination about the scheme must be ensured as the low administrative awareness in the community could be an impediment in success of the scheme, the trickiest aspect of the implementation will be to ensure that those who opt for the scheme don’t drop out mid-way either because of economic reasons or because they don’t find it useful, etc. if ensured would make the scheme standout.