The plans in the pipeline include the development of Wakf Properties, tapping its commercial potential. The Union Minority Affairs Ministry has already written to the state Governments about the same. The Government is also exploring ways to amend the Wakf Act so that the management of the properties is done in a better way with the Centre having a greater say.

The skill and entrepreneurship development among the Muslim community will focus on making credit easy to the Muslims, besides devising particular schemes in areas where the Muslims are employed in traditional occupations like the lock industry in Aligarh.

Meanwhile, the Centre has written to state Governments and Union Territories, urging them to post more Muslim health workers, teachers and police personnel in areas dominated by the community.

The letter, sent by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) on August 30, has focused on these spheres of Government since these are the ones which have “maximum public-administration interface” and the maximum potential to generate confidence within the community, official sources said.

The department, however, admitted that the letter was more in the nature of an “advisory” since posting of personnel came under the domain of the state Governments. “Our letter has nothing to do with recruitment, only posting of existing personnel in the states,” a senior DoPT official said.

The Union Ministries of Home, Health and HRD have been directed to come up with guidelines for such postings. The Home Ministry is the cadre controlling authority for the Indian Police Service but officials concede that the right to post a particular officer to a particular area is the prerogative of the state Government.