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[ZESTCaste] Upper caste students refuse to take meal prepared by Dalit

 

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Upper caste students refuse to take meal prepared by Dalit

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Posted On Monday, July 12, 2010
United News of India
Kendrapada, July 12:

Upper caste students in a primary school in this coastal district have
refused to take mid-day meal for the last two days as it was prepared
by Dalit women.
According to a report received at the district headquarters here, the
upper cast students of Siddha Marichani Nodal Primary school of
Sanamarichapalli village under Rajanagar block have stopped taking the
meal, protesting the Dalit women preparing it for the students.
The school authority has been left with no other option but to dump
the mid-day meal of over 100 upper caste students. Few months back,
the parents of the upper caste students restrained their wards to
attend classes protesting against the preparation of mid-day meal by
two dalit women.
The six-month-long dispute among the upper caste and Dalits in this
village was yet to be solved by the district administration.
According to locals, the authority entrusted Maa Ambika Self Help
Group(SHG) in 2007 to provide mid-day meal to the students.
Earlier, two upper caste women Kamala Baral and Basanti Patra were
preparing the meal for the students, but the SHG entrusted two Dalit
women in January last to cook food for the students, triggering a
caste conflict in the village.

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