Monday, April 12, 2010

[ZESTCaste] Brahmin-Devadiga Couple Tie the Knot with Family Consent

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Udupi: Brahmin-Devadiga Couple Tie the Knot with Family Consent

Pics: Durga digitals
Daijiworld Media Network- Udupi (RS/VA)

Udupi, Apr 11: As an ideal to society where caste discrimination is
prevalent, a rare form of inter-caste wedding took place at Mukyaprana
Guru Raghavendra Mandir, Jalanjaru, near Kaup here, on Friday April 9.

A young man from upper caste Brahmin family tied knot with a Devadiga
community girl, in the presence of both the family members, putting
aside all the conservative rules.

The married couple, Ramamurthy Bhat and Latha are residents of
Kemmundel Kaup. Ramamurthy is working as an electrician and Latha is
employed in a private company. The five years of eternal love between
the two resulted in wedding after members from both the families gave
their consent.

Ramamurthy was able to convince his family members without much
effort. He said that their easy permission to the wedding was quite
surprising to him. "In future, we will live happily respecting each
other's casts", he added

Latha is also very pleased with the way the wedding proceedings have
taken place with the blessings and well wishes from both the family
members.

Almost all the relatives of the couple made it to the wedding
ceremony. The friends of Ramamurthy were especially supportive and
celebrated the occasion with joy.

Subrahmanya Acharya, priest who performed the rituals of the marriage,
said that there is a shortage of girls in Brahmin community and well
settled but less educated boys in the community are not finding
suitable match. Hence such weddings gain more importance.

He also added that inter- caste marriages are not so opposed in the
community as it was in the earlier days which is a good sign.

Madhava Aithal, K P Acharya, Manohar Rao, Nagarthna Rao were among the
seniors from Brahmin community who blessed the couple on the occasion.


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[ZESTCaste] ‘Policemen party to crime against Dalits’

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'Policemen party to crime against Dalits'

April 12, 2010 09:24:33
According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) rating,
Rajasthan features in the list of states with the highest rate of
atrocities against Dalits, said human rights activists during a press
conference on Saturday. Quoting several cases of rape and murder of
Dalits, the activists claimed that police officers often acted
negligently against the tormentors of the poor and on several
occasions in connivance with them. Activists claimed that the number
of harassment cases were on a ...


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[ZESTCaste] Congress forgets Ambedkar, BSP tosses it up as anti-Dalit

http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_congress-forgets-ambedkar-bsp-tosses-it-up-as-anti-dalit_1370305

Congress forgets Ambedkar, BSP tosses it up as anti-Dalit
Deepak Gidwani / DNA
Monday, April 12, 2010 0:55 IST

Lucknow: Congress has been caught on the wrong foot in Uttar Pradesh
(UP). The posters it initially made for Dr BR Ambedkar's birth
anniversary on April 14 didn't have the Dalit icon's photo on them.
Though the party soon came out with a fresh batch of posters with
Ambedkar's photo displayed prominently on them, the Bahujan Samaj
Party (BSP) was quick to condemn Congress as anti-Dalit.

"The posters have once again exposed the Congress's real face. The
party has always been thwarting Ambedkar's agenda aimed at Dalit
welfare," UP BSP chief Swami Prasad Maurya said.
The Congress stressed that the poster controversy was part of the
BSP's conspiracy to malign its image.

"BSP is responsible for this mischief," UP Congress spokesman
Dwijendra Tripathi said.

He said the posters without Ambedkar's photo were put up by BSP
workers. Both parties are expected to hold programmes in Ambedkar
Nagar on Wednesday.

The war of words indicate how both sides will be ready to slug it out that day.

While Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi is slated to start the
party's Dalit Chetna Yatra, the BSP plans to flag off an agitation to
"expose the misdeeds" of the Congress and failure of the UPA at the
same place on the same day.


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[ZESTCaste] ‘Self-conceit ruining Dalit movement’

http://www.sakaaltimes.com/SakaalTimesBeta/20100412/4652715920661534476.htm

'Self-conceit ruining Dalit movement'

Reporter
Monday, April 12, 2010 AT 12:00 AM (IST)

PUNE: Rajya Sabha MP and noted economist Bhalchandra Mungekar said on
Sunday that feeling of self-conceit among many Dalit leaders and
activists has been ruining the prospects of Dalit movement in
Maharashtra.

"Several leaders and activists from Dalit movement, which was
initiated by late Dr B R Ambedkar, have developed superiority complex
about themselves. It is most dangerous for the movement's political
future if there are such people around," Mungekar lamented.

He was speaking as chief guest at the inauguration of the maiden
three-day Samyak Marathi Sahitya Sammelan, organised by Dr Babasaheb
Ambedkar Cultural Festival committee here from Sunday.

Mungekar, a former member of Planning Commission and
ex-vice-chancellor of Mumbai University, urged for striking balance
between individual aspirations and community feelings. "This only
could bring widespread change in Dalit community," he said.

Mungekar also appealed activists to bring into action the thoughts
preached by social reformers Shahu Maharaj, Mahatma Phule and Dr B R
Ambedkar.

President of the literary meet, Deenanath Manohar stressed the
importance of event like literary meet for preserving and promoting
Marathi language.

Speaking on the occasion, South Indian Dalit writer Dr Kancha Ilaya
took overview of socio-economic and political conditions of the Dalits
since pre-Independence era.

Hindi author Mohandas Naimisharanya, RPI leader Ramdas Athavale,
Reader at Indira Gandhi National Open University Dr Vimal Thorat also
expressed their views on the occasion.

Pune Mayor Mohansingh Rajpal, chairman of reception committee of
literary meet Parshuram Wadekar, Deepak Mhaske were also present on
the occasion.

Seminars, poetry meets and other cultural events will take place
during three-days of literary meet held at Balgandharva Auditorium
here.

Ambedkar's writings

Rajya Sabha MP and former member of Planning Commission Bhalchandra
Mungekar said that Maharashtra government has failed to initiate work
on a project of compilation of literary work of late Dr B R Ambedkar.

"A sum of Rs Five crore had been sanctioned for the project, out of
which Rs 1.8 crore was handed over to state government three years
ago. However, no work has been initiated to compile the work of Dr
Ambedkar," he said.


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[ZESTCaste] 'I am a follower of Ambedkar’s ideology’

http://expressbuzz.com/cities/chennai/%E2%80%98i-am-a-follower-of-ambedkar%E2%80%99s-ideology%E2%80%99/164643.html

'I am a follower of Ambedkar's ideology'


Express News ServiceFirst Published : 12 Apr 2010 03:55:00 AM ISTLast Updated :

CHENNAI: BJP president Nitin Gadkari drew a small, but enthusiastic,
crowd of around 300 when he addressed workers of the Integral Coach
Factory at Ayanavaram.


When the announcer invited people to honour the BJP president, nearly
a fourth of the gathering lunged for the stage with shawls and towels
making the entire stage to shake. Garlanding the statue of Ambedkar,
which was unveiled in 1984 by BJP patriarch Atal Behari Vajpayee, he
said, "I am a follower of Ambedkar's ideology." He urged the gathering
take a vow to work against forces like untouchability and
discrimination to usher in equality and social justice as a mark of
respect to the legal luminary.

Office bearers of the Bharatiya Railway Mazdoor Sangh (BRMS), which
organised the function, seized the opportunity to putforth a set of
demands which included the construction of a new residential quarters,
implementation of safety norms and provision of better medical
facilities. The BRMS also asked Gadkari to push the government to fill
close to 2000 vacancies at the ICF.


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[ZESTCaste] Ensure social justice, lawyers told

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By Express News Service
11 Apr 2010 12:43:50 PM IST

Ensure social justice, lawyers told

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Former Union Minister O.Rajagopal has called on
lawyers to ensure social justice to marginalised sections such as
Dalits and tribals.
Inaugurating a seminar on the `Rights of the marginalised' organised
as part of the state conference of the Bharathiya Abhibhashaka
Parishad here on Saturday, he said that lawyers should be more
vigilant about protecting the rights of the weaker sections.
Participating in the seminar, Chengara land agitation leader Laha
Gopalan said when the Communist Government implemented the Land
Reforms Act, it had provided hundreds of acres of land to big parties
while the dalits who toiled on the land were provided only three cents
of land.
Kerala Dalit Federation (KDF) president P. Ramabhadran said that
while dalits were integral part of the Hindu community, they had no
reason to be proud of being Hindus. Kazhakoottam Narayanan Nair,
Kochukunju, Nagaresh, P.L. Venukumar and Ajith Aniyur spoke.
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[ZESTCaste] Devil in the details

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Devil-in-the-details/604931


Devil in the details

A.K. Verma Posted online: Monday , Apr 12, 2010 at 0051 hrs
A Delhi University law graduate, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister
Mayawati's initial reactions to The Right of Children to Free and
Compulsory Education Act raised eyebrows all over. The Act would help
children of most Dalits, a constituency so assiduously nurtured by
Mayawati. Even so, she has a point.
Article 45 of our Constitution required that within 10 years of its
commencement, the state should provide free and compulsory education
to children. It meant that this law should have been on statute books
fifty years ago. Moreover, the 86th Constitutional Amendment, 2002
inserted Article 21A which said, "The State shall provide free and
compulsory education to all children of the age of six to fourteen
years in such manner as the State may, by law, determine." But,
Parliament took seven years to enact this law, and government waited
for seven months before enforcing it. When Mayawati calls it a delayed
Central response, she has a point.

This delay has helped private institutions for a whole year because
they close admissions in March. So 25 per cent seats from weaker
sections and disadvantaged groups in private schools will have to wait
for one more year before getting filled. This law also puts the age of
education as 6-14 years, whereas the private schools start admissions
at 3-4 years of age. How will this wide gap be filled up without
creating age asymmetry in classrooms?

Mayawati's equally valid objection is about projecting the compulsory
education law as the Centre's bonanza to people. Education is a
"concurrent subject" and, free and compulsory education to millions of
children puts financial burden on states. Mayawati may have felt hurt
because she was not consulted in spite of state governments bearing a
direct financial liability.

The ground realities in education, especially primary education, in
Uttar Pradesh are pretty bad. There are a very large number of
children in the age group 6-14, and about 30 lakh of them don't go to
schools. The literacy rate is a poor 56.27 per cent, and there is a
vast gender gap of 26.60 per cent in literacy (male 68.8, female
42.22). There is huge pressure on 1,21,426 primary schools (76 schools
per lakh of population), and 44581 upper primary schools ( 27 schools
per lakh). The pupil- teacher ratio in primary schools is 85 whereas
the new law proposes a ratio of 40. The total dropout rate in primary
education is 24.74.

Enforcement of the new law would require 4,596 new primary and 2,349
upper primary schools and 3.25 lakh new primary teachers. In addition,
67,000 new regular and 44,000 part-time teachers would be required in
upper primary schools, as per government assessments. Effective
implementation of the law against this backdrop means heavy investment
in primary education. Fortunately, governments were already giving
"education to all" under the 10th plan, through the Sarva Shiksha
Abhiyan scheme that provided education until class five to all
children in the 6-14 age group.

The additional financial burden on states in implementing the Act
could be mitigated through section 7(3), which requires the Centre to
give a certain percentage of expenditure as grants-in-aid to states.
There seems to be flexibility in this provision, and the Centre's
share may differ from state to state. Also, there could be better
allocation of funds to states in future under section 7(4) of the Act
which provides that the Central government may request the President
to make a reference to the Finance Commission to examine whether any
state needs additional help.

However, the educational bureaucracy together with the political
leadership is neck deep into corruption. Hence, pumping huge funds in
the hands of bureaucrats and politicians may increase corruption in
basic education.

Opposition parties criticised Mayawati for wasting money on statues
and unnecessarily crying about a resource deficit. They charged that
there would not be a resource crunch had Mayawati not allocated Rs
4,500 crore in 2009-10 state budget for memorials and parks. More, she
is making huge investments in creating a strong two lakh force of
retired policemen to keep watch over statues of Dalit icons, including
her own, in nine parks across Uttar Pradesh. But the kind of
constituency that she represents justifies such expenditure to bolster
them and give them a sense of elation. And, have others not done the
same in the name of Ambedkar, Gandhi, Nehru, Indira, and Rajiv Gandhi?

And there is a flip side of the law. Have we calculated the emotional
and psychological problems of a small group of "have not" students
rubbing shoulders with majority of students coming from affluent
sections? We may give them parity in school, but the economic gulf
between rich and poor may generate more problems than we anticipate.
And, while we may force rich schools to induct poor students, have we
any plans to take affluent children to government schools?

Mayawati may not be sophisticated in reacting to the Centre's
educational initiatives, but she has initiated a debate on the issue.
The nation may be infatuated by the new educational law, but, as time
passes, we may realise how ineffective legal instruments are in
tackling social and cultural evils.


The writer teaches politics in Christ Church College, Kanpur


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[ZESTCaste] BSP to expose Congress’s “anti-Dalit” stand

http://beta.thehindu.com/news/states/other-states/article393784.ece

Published: April 10, 2010 20:43 IST | Updated: April 11, 2010 01:30
IST LUCKNOW, April 10, 2010

BSP to expose Congress's "anti-Dalit" stand
Special Correspondent


Posters brought out by the BSP and the Congress in Uttar Pradesh.
Photo: Special Arrangement
Pushed on the back foot by the Congress Party's bid to regain its
Dalit support base in Uttar Pradesh with the launch of the "Congress
yatra 2010" from Ambedkar Nagar on April 14, the birth anniversary of
Bhimrao Ambedkar, a tense ruling Bahujan Samaj Party is now trying to
"expose" its political adversary's concern for Dalits.

As the Congress yatra is set to be flagged off by the party general
secretary, Rahul Gandhi, battle lines have been drawn between the two
with Dr. Ambedkar and Ambedkar Nagar (Akbarpur) emerging as symbols of
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Mayawati's efforts to consolidate her
Dalit vote bank and the Congress' bid to woo them. Apart from
celebrating Dr. Ambedkar's birth anniversary, the BSP would stage a
State-wide dharna and demonstration on April 14 against the Women's
Reservation Bill.

On Saturday, the ruling party officially released three posters of the
BSP and the Congress related to April 14. While the BSP poster carries
Ms. Mayawati's picture and that of the Dalit icons, including Dr.
Ambedkar, Mr. Gandhi's portrait dominates the space in the Congress
poster with lesser space given to Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh and
Congress president, Sonia Gandhi. This Congress poster, however, does
not carry the pictures of Dr. Ambedkar, or any other Dalit leader.

Describing the Congress as 'anti-Dalit,' he State unit president of
BSP, Swami Prasad Maurya said here on Saturday that the Congress was
responsible for the extreme poverty and deprivation amongst the
Dalits. Referring to the Congress poster, Mr. Maurya slammed the party
for ignoring Dr. Ambedkar. "It only shows that there has been no
change in the Congress Party's attitude towards Dr. Ambedkar", the UP
BSP chief said.

On the new Congress poster, Mr. Maurya said it was attempt to gloss
over its mistake and was an insult to Dr. Ambedkar. He said Dr.
Ambedkar had advised his supporters to stay away from the Congress.

In fact, the absence of Dr. Ambedkar's picture in the Congress poster,
which was put up in Ambedkar Nagar, was made an issue by the local
unit of BSP last week in a bid to expose the Congress' "Dalit-prem" (
love for Dalits). The posters were hastily withdrawn by the Congress.
The new posters and hoardings now installed in Ambedkar Nagar and at
the UP Congress headquarters in Lucknow show Dr. Ambedkar and former
Defence Minister and once the Dalit face of the Congress, Jagjivan
Ram, along with those of Mr. Gandhi and other party leaders.

When contacted the Congress yatra in charge and Faizabad MP, Nirmal
Khatri, said that the posters sans Dr. Ambedkar were put up by some
enthusiastic party supporters. " The Congress has great respect for
Dr. Ambedkar and other Dalit leaders", Mr. Khatri told The Hindu from
Ambedkar Nagar.

10 yatras

Ten Congress yatras would be flagged off by the Amethi MP from
Ambedkar Nagar on April 14 where Mr. Gandhi will also address a public
meeting at the ground next to the airstrip. "The 10 yatras, which
would be coordinated by senior leaders, including MPs, will touch all
the 430 Assembly segments in the 18 divisions of Uttar Pradesh", said
the UP Congress spokesman, Dwijendra Tripathi.

The first phase of the yatra would end on May 31, 2010. The second
phase of the Congress campaign is tentatively scheduled to commence on
September 15 and end on November 10 in Allahabad with Ms.Gandhi
scheduled to address the concluding function.


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[ZESTCaste] Nepal: Dalits denied a right to public drinking water

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Dalits denied a right to public drinking water

by Mohan Nepali for Public Journalism April 12, 2010

According to a krishnasenonline report written by journalist Sudarshan
Khatiwada from Dhading, so-called high caste Brahmins have banned the
Dalit community from drinking water at Jyamarung-7, Dhading.

A group of Brahmins led by Chet Bahadur Neupane stopped a 17-year Sita
Basyal from filling her water pot. They dismantled the water pipes
installed at the Dalit settlement.


Dalits of the village had got access to public drinking water facility
during the State of Emergency. They had paid Nepali rupees 500 to
1,000 for the fitting of water pipes in the village.


In Nepal, it is very common to discriminate and suppress Dalits—so
called lower caste people—in the name of ritual caste untouchability.


Dalits in rural parts are still treated as animals despite the end of
caste discrimination in the country's constitution.


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[ZESTCaste] Why India's Dalits Dont Trust The Maoists

 

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Why India's Dalits Dont Trust The Maoists

By Thomas C. Mountain

10 April, 2010
Countercurrents.org

India's Dalits really, really distrust the Maoist movement of India
and Nepal. As the Maoist movement begins to challenge for state power
in Nepal, and has struck a serious level of alarm in the ruling elite
in India, this question has important ramifications for the future of
south Asia.

The Dalit movement in India is the largest and fastest growing threat
to the status quo, followed at some distance by the Maoists.
Interestingly, almost all the Dalit leadership I know, mostly mid
level cadre in the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), India's third largest
national party and main force in the Dalit liberation movement, are
ex-Maoists.

When asked why they distrust the "Naxalites", the common term for the
Maoist movement, they point out, to start, the fact that almost all
the rank and file fighters in the Maoist movement are Dalits or
tribals and that almost all the leadership are "high caste". The
Dalits I know have had first hand experience with just how casteist
the "Naxalite"/Maoist leadership is.

When delving into the "political line" put forth by the Maoist
movement in India and Nepal, it is rare to find mention of
caste/varna, let alone any attempt to address caste/varna(color) in
any sort of historical perspective. It would seem that the Maoist
leaders would prefer to blend class with caste and avoid any dealing
with such a potentially divisive question.

The Dalit movement exemplified by the BSP cadre I know is firmly
rooted in organizing Dalits into community collectives and focused on
mobilizing Dalits in exercising their voting rights. When it is
pointed out that no ruling class has ever peacefully relinquished
their priviledges, i.e; through elections, my Dalit comrades point out
that 85% of India Dalits still believe in the one, unifying tenent of
Hinduism, varna/caste/color. Simply put, most Dalits believe they are
being punished by God for sins in a previous life and their lot as
"untouchables", Dalits, is Gods Will. If God willed your punishment
today with the promise of a better re-birth in the next life , than
trying to lift yourselfs and your childrens lot above that of cleaning
the communal toilets is going against Gods Will. Sounds like a
brilliant scheme for social control using a religion, Hinduism, in the
opinion of all the Dalits I know.

Taking into consideration just how mentally enslaved most Dalits
remain, moving the masses of Dalits from being so crushed and broken
to real liberation might take a series of steps instead of one giant
leap, or so my Dalit comrades seem to feel. Dalits may have to see for
themselves that casting a vote is not going to midwife any real
liberation for the rank and file. While acknowledging that a series of
trial and error may mark their struggle and that the Maoist scorn such
an approach, Dalits feel that if the Maoist movement continues to
ignore varna/caste while still dependent on Dalits to win power,
Dalits are doomed to see their struggle for equal rights and justice
betrayed by the new Brahmins, the leaders of todays Maoist movement.

One fact remains utterly non debatable and that is that India and
Nepal remain overwhelmingly a society of villages. Equally non
debatable is that in India and Nepal's villages, caste rules . How the
Maoist movement can hope to succeed without even addressing this issue
in any real way bodes ill for any hopes the Maoist movement offers any
real solutions to the most barbaric, inhumane system of human
oppression in the world, Apartheid in India and Nepal.

In a previous life Thomas C. Mountain was the publisher of the
Ambedkar Journal and a founding member of the Phoolan Devi
International Defense Committee
thomascmountain at yahoo dot com

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[ZESTCaste] Lucknow : Coming soon: Mayayug

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Lucknownama/604999


Lucknownama
Express News Service Posted online: Monday , Apr 12, 2010 at 0210 hrs
Lucknow : Coming soon: Mayayug
Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati has turned editor. In fact, she is
the chief editor, printer, publisher and owner of Mayayug — the
official mouthpiece of the party. Dummy copies of the magazine
recently reached select partymen. As could be expected, it is Mayawati
all over, with very little other reading material. Even the editorial
is on Mayawati — Sarva samaj kee asha kee ekmatra kiran (The only ray
of hope for Sarva Samaj). It's going to be a quarterly publication,
though initially it was planned as a monthly magazine, said a BSP
leader. It will come out soon after legal formalities — like getting a
registration number — are completed.

No more Ansari blues
Bahujan Samaj Party MLA from Dildar Nagar, P N Rai, is a relieved man
after the government sent don-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari from
Ghazipur to Mathura jail. Rai's constituency Dildar Nagar has ceased
to exist after delimitation, and he had been eyeing Mohammadabad,
which Mukhtar's brother and SP legislator Sibgatullah Ansari currently
represents in the Assembly. Rai had even told Chief Minister Mayawati
that he would like to contest from Mohammadabad in 2012. Mayawati had
reportedly assured him, but Rai still had doubts in view of the clout
of the Ansari brothers. In the Lok Sabha elections last year, the BSP
had fielded Mukhtar from Varanasi and his brother Afzal from Ghazipur.
In spite of being an SP legislator, Sibgatullah had campaigned for
Mukhtar. The talk in the political circles was that, as part of the
one-in-three deal, Sibgatullah had been assured of BSP nomination from
Mohammadabad in 2012. The shifting of Mukhtar to Mathura jail shows
that Mayawati no longer needs him. Rai can now relax.


Where is the money?
The Samajwadi Party has announced a series of programmes for the next
three months to strengthen the organisation and woo the most backward
among the OBCs. It begins with party conventions in every Assembly
constituency from April 15, followed by a OBC convention in Kanpur on
April 19, and then similar meetings at divisional level across the
state. The SP leaders from districts are asking for financial
assistance from the party headquarters for organising these
programmes. They say they had mobilised resources at the local level
for the fortnight-long cycle yatras in March, but can't do it again.
The SP headquarters is asking them to take the help of MLAs and MPs.
But how much money can the MPs and MLAs of an Opposition party raise?


All for media space
The Rashtriya Lok Dal has decided to take out torchlight processions
at district headquarters on April 13 to protest against inflation and
corruption prevailing in welfare schemes of Centre and the Uttar
Pradesh government. The party chose April 13 because it's the eve of B
R Ambedkar's birth anniversary. But why not Ambedkar's anniversary?
Well, that day, the Congress will launch its statewide yatras in
Ambedkarnagar, while the BSP will hold a big rally in the town around
the same time against the Women's Reservation Bill. Between these two,
any programme organised by a small party like RLD that day will get
squeezed out for media space. So, the best slot was the eve of
Ambedkar's birth anniversary, reasoned party general secretary Munna
Singh Chauhan.


An unhappy lot
The government decision to transfer 1989-batch IAS officer Sanjay
Bhoosreddy from Lucknow to Allahabad has not gone down well with IAS
officers. Bhoosreddy is honorary secretary of the Uttar Pradesh IAS
Association and there has been a tradition that the government
generally does not transfer the association president and secretary
out of Lucknow. Once even a government order was issued against
shifting these office-bearers outside the state capital, claimed an
officer. The IAS officers see in Bhoosreddy's transfer an attempt to
weaken the association which, in any case, is not very active. About a
year ago, the government had transferred Chandra Prakash — secretary
of the IPS Association — to Allahabad. The IPS Association had then
appointed another officer, Renuka Mishra, in his place.


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[ZESTCaste] Nitish shows Paswans the Mahadalit carrot

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Nitish shows Paswans the Mahadalit carrot
Vandita Mishra Posted online: Monday , Apr 12, 2010 at 0848 hrs
New Delhi : The setting was apt and, by itself, the announcement was
hardly controversial. At a Dalit conference in Patna on April 4 to
mark the birth anniversary of Baba Chauharmal, revered among the
Paswans, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar declared that the state
government would begin distributing three decimals of land to landless
Paswans, a promise it has earlier made to the newly minted category of
Mahadalits in the state.
Yet Kumar's announcement has touched off an extraordinary question: If
every Dalit group in Bihar has been officially designated as
Mahadalit, or will be treated as such by the government, who is a
Dalit in Bihar? Or conversely, if all Dalits are now Mahadalits, or to
be treated as such, who is a Mahadalit?

The story so far: In 2007, the Bihar government set up the Mahadalit
Commission to identify the Mahadalits, that is, the most deprived of
the deprived, ostensibly for better targeting of schemes for their
uplift and development. According to the Commission, there were three
criteria of inclusion: literacy rates, placement in services and
social stigma.

To begin with, the Mahadalit Commission identified 18 of Bihar's 22
Dalit castes as Mahadalit. That is, all Dalit groups except four:
Jatavs and Paswans, the two most numerically dominant groups, together
accounting for more than 60 per cent of Bihar's SC population, and
Dhobis and Pasis, the two groups considered relatively better off in
terms of development parameters among Dalits.

A year later, in 2008, Pasis and Dhobis were also included in the
Mahadalit list. In 2009, the Jatavs followed them into the burgeoning
Mahadalit ranks, leaving out only the Paswans. And now, Nitish has
promised to Paswans that the government would extend to them the
special schemes it has designed for Mahadalits. So is Nitish setting
the stage for the formal induction of the Paswans into the Mahadalit
category, in the process abolishing the very distinction his
government was responsible for creating with much political fanfare in
2007?

"That situation (of all Dalits becoming Mahadalits) will not arise.
Leaders of the Paswan community have said they do not want to be
included in the Mahadalit list. They consider it a term of abuse,"
says Babban Rawat, member of the Mahadalit Commission. "There is no
question of including anyone in Mahadalits now," says K P Ramaiah,
secretary of the Commission.

But Ramaiah admits that "the facilities that are being given to
Mahadalits will also be given to Paswans". These include, apart from
the three decimals of land, job training, toilet and health
facilities, distribution of uniforms to school-going children from
Class I to V, and formation of self-help groups.

According to sources in the Commission, all the benefits to Mahadalits
will eventually be extended to Paswans "in one form or another", "with
a little variation". For instance, the Bihar Mahadalit Vikas Mission
pledges to "enrol and ensure retention of students from Mahadalit
families" by the appointment of a "Local Resource Person (Vikas Mitra)
who will be in direct consultation with the Mahadalit families and
will also ensure the implementation of other schemes". For the
Paswans, the plan is to appoint the Vikas Mitra by another name — he
will be called the Suraksha Mitra.

Sensing his opportunity, Ram Vilas Paswan, the leading claimant of the
state's Paswan vote bank, throws down a challenge: "If the Paswans
also get three decimal land, like the Mahadalits, then why create the
separate category? Will Nitish Kumar tell the people this: which of
the benefits given to Mahadalits will be denied by his government to
the Paswans?"

According to Paswan, the creation of the Mahadalit category was a ploy
to divide the Dalits. But as the groups left out of the Mahadalit
circle mounted pressure and agitations — with Paswan's own Lok
Janshakti Party taking the lead — Nitish buckled under the pressure,
and included more and more Dalit groups till only one remained outside
the boundary. On April 3, Paswan points out, he had called a Dalit
Sena Sammelan in Patna, in which a decision was taken to launch a
statewide agitation against the Nitish government. A day later, Nitish
announced the three decimal land benefit for Paswans.

Ali Anwar, a JD(U) MP and the party's chief in the Upper House,
explains the inexorable expansion of the Mahadalit category in Bihar
by drawing a parallel with the JD(U)'s "flexibility" on the Women's
Reservation Bill after Nitish publicly urged his party to reconsider
its oppositional stand. "Just as we showed flexibility on the issue of
women's reservation, we are doing the same vis-a-vis demands for
inclusion in the Mahadalit list. We are open to new facts and figures.
Why should the poor among the Paswans be discriminated against?" he
says. "We are not snatching away from one to give to the other, we are
only reaching out to more groups."

As Dalit versus Mahadalit becomes the new political battle in Bihar's
election year, the state's misfortune is specially amplified by this
tug-of-war of the deprived. While Dalits lag behind the other castes
on all socio-economic indices all across the country, Bihar's Dalits
uniformly lag behind those in other states.

With 93.3 per cent residing in rural areas, Dalits in Bihar are
overwhelmingly rural. According to the 2001 Census, the sex ratio of
Bihar's Dalit population is 923 females per 1,000 males, lower than
the national average of 936 for all Dalits. The overall literacy rate
of Bihar's Dalits is 28.5 per cent, nearly half of the 54.7 per cent
recorded for all SCs. More than three-fourth of the total Dalit
workers in Bihar are agricultural labour, far higher than the national
average of 45.6 per cent.


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[ZESTCaste] Nepal: Relief eludes Bardiya victims' kin

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Relief eludes Bardiya victims' kin
KALENDRA SEJUWAL

HARIHARPUR, Surkhet, April 10: Families of three Dalit women shot dead
by Nepal Army (NA) personnel inside Bardiya National Park (BNP) on
March 10 are yet to receive crematory expenses.

Earlier, the chief district officer (CDO) of Bardiya and Warden of BNP
had assured families of the killed villagers that the latter would
receive crematory expenses by April 7.

On Friday, Krishna Bahadur BK, whose wife Devisara and daughter
Chandrakala were killed by NA personnel, went to BNP office in
Thakurdwara of Bardiya to get the money. But Krishna Bahadur had to
return empty-handed.

"I got nothing despite the written agreement," he lamented.

Earlier, the local authorities had provided Rs 20,000 to the victims´
families after they refused to receive the dead bodies for ten days.
The authorities had promised to provide an additional Rs 55,000 for
crematory expenses.

The final rites of the three women killed in the incident have already
been performed. However, the victims´ families are facing hardships
after they spent all their money to perform the final rites for their
dead relatives.

"We have not gone out to work since the tragedy," Krishna Bahadur´s
brother Durga Bahadur said. "We have run out of food grains. We have
been surviving with the food lent by our neighbors."

Meanwhile, the BNP administration has admitted that the killed Dalit
women were not poachers. The BNP administration and the families of
the victims have struck another nine-point deal.

According to the deal, the victims´ families will be provided with
crematory expenses within seven days. Besides, both parties will
withdraw their cases filed against each other.


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