Monday, January 11, 2010

[ZESTCaste] Mohali up in arms: Dalits protest inflation, plot allottees rue delay

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/mohali-up-in-arms-dalits-protest-inflation-plot-allottees-rue-delay/565763/

Mohali up in arms: Dalits protest inflation, plot allottees rue delay

Express News Service Posted online: Monday , Jan 11, 2010 at 0100 hrs
Mohali : Saturday was a day of protests in Mohali. While the Dalits
staged a massive protest against the price rise, atrocities and
injustice, the allottees of Sector 76-80 held demonstration against
long delay in allotment of their plots.
Braving the dense fog, hundreds of Dalits from across the district
gathered at the Dussehra Ground in Phase VIII here this morning and
walked up to the District Administrative Complex in Phase-I under the
banner of the Punjab Dalit Chetna Manch, an NGO fighting for the cause
of Dalits.

Holding black flags, banners and placards with slogans against the
Centre and state government, the Dalits expressed their anguish
against the skyrocketing prices of essential commodities of daily use,
atrocities and injustice meted out to them in different spheres and
indifferent attitude of the governments and administration towards
their plight.

Addressing the protest rally, which culminated in front of the Deputy
Commissioner's office, the Manch president Shamsher Singh said the
insult of Dalits in government offices, 40 per cent cut on supply of
pulses and wheat to Dalits, complete ban on supply of kerosene oil,
discrimination in shagun and houses for houseless people schemes,
increasing trend of encroachments on village common lands to render
the Dalits houseless and skyrocketing prices of essential commodities
of daily use, which had rendered the poor without even the daily bread
were the main issues that forced to launch the mass public agitation.

The protest concluded after submitting a memorandum to the SDM, who
assured to forward it to the government for favourable consideration.

The second protest in the biting chill was by the members of the
Sector 76-80 Plot Allotment Sangharsh Committee, which was
spearheading the cause of those allotted plots in 2001 but were not
yet given their physical possession.

Hundreds of allottees staged a massive demonstration in front of the
Greater Mohali Area Development Authority (GMADA) headquarters in
Sector 62 here this morning.

The allottees, led by the panel president Sucha Singh Kalor, squatted
in front of the GMADA office and raised slogans against GMADA
officials for what they alleged as delay in allotment of 351 remaining
plots.

Despite repeated and clear cut instructions of Punjab Chief Minister
Parkash Singh Badal, who is also GMADA Chairman, to immediately clear
all the pending cases of allotment in Sector 76-80 without any further
delay and favourable decision of the legal litigation from the Apex
Court, the GMADA officials concerned were making "lame excuses" to
further delay the remaining allotments, alleged the panel media
spokesperson Paramdeep Singh.

The protesters demanded action against the GMADA officials concerned
for "harassing" the allottees for the past 9 years.


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