Interview with Telangana State Minority Finance Corporation Managing Director B. Shaifullah IFS

Training and providing employment and empowerment opportunities is the main focus of the state’s minority department. The department is working on not just training but also vouching for placements of the youth trained under the programs organized by the TSMFC, said Mr. B. Shafiullah IFS, Vice Chairman and Managing Director – Telangana State Minority Finance Corporation.

In an exclusive interview, Mr. Shafiullah who is also the Secretary of Minority Residential Schools Society, an umbrella organization overlooking the 71 state-funded Minority Residential schools across Telangana which commenced operations this July, said “our key focus is education. It is the key solution to misery of the underprivileged of the minority community and is our first step forward in this direction.”

He said the state department for minorities is contemplating to establish Community Production Centres in various parts of the state. These centers will aid in empowering the youth in vocational skills like tailoring and related arts for girls, technical training and other jobs for boys.

“Last year the minority department has trained 20,000 boys and girls in different courses like paramedical, electronics, home security systems, and construction and maintenance jobs”, he added.

But the process does not end at just training. “Our aim is to help them get employed. We are signing up with major partners like Apollo (for paramedical courses) and others. In fact, Apollo, for example, is issuing certificates to candidates that are trained at their centres and these certificates are a legitimate recognition and help for their jobs. We are ensuring at least 70-80% placement for the trained youth.”

Fervently speaking about the attention-worthy state of a strata of minority community, Mr. Shafiullah said ‘the Khak-e-Taibi Trust’s Rozgaar facility will be further revamped and made into a Community Production Centre with more characteristics for training, cutting ,ironing, sewing, stitching and other tailoring chores on par with industrial production. Our aim is to ensure the poor and destitute women working at these centres and the deserving youth earn at least 500 rupees a day.”

Nearly 25-30 lakhs have been earmarked for this purpose, he added.

According to Mr. Shafiullah, the minorities department would do all that is needed to uplift the weaker sections of the society by providing jobs, resolving their basic issues of education, employment and food but a dearth of officers at the department have slowed down their efforts. Once the government instructs to recruit the required number of officials in these departments, optimum amount of work can be done, and more of the sanctioned budget will be used for the betterment of minorities.

By: Syed Khaled Shahbaaz

The MD was speaking exclusively to this journalist for an interview with Gawah Urdu Weekly.

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