Sunday, November 28, 2010

[ZESTCaste] Voice of Dalit

 

Dear Friends,
The bi-annual journal Voice of Dalit is being published since 2008. I am the Editor. We invited researched articles for consideration of publication on issues of dalit concern from those who are interested in the matter. Articles have to be scholarly , academic articles written from a dalit perspective with suitable notes and references given at the end. For details please communicate with me at debichat@yahoomail.com or [m] 9007952647. The website of the publishers [ MD Publications, New Delhi] at www.mdppl.com contains information of the back numbers of the journal and other matters.

Best Wishes,
Debi Chatterjee
Editor,
Voice of Dalit

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[ZESTCaste] ‘Men should not be allowed in seats reserved for women in PMPML buses’

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/-Men-should-not-be-allowed-in-seats-reserved-for-women-in-PMPML-buses-/717226


'Men should not be allowed in seats reserved for women in PMPML buses'
Express News Service Posted online: Sun Nov 28 2010, 06:08 hrs
Pune : Various city-based women's organisations on Saturday said the
Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited (PMPML) had failed to
implement the system of reserving seats for women on buses, leading to
incidents of eve-teasing. However, the PMPML administration said women
themselves should raise voice against this on the buses, but also
promised to appoint a flying squad to curb incidents of eve-teasing.
A survey by voluntary organisations working for women in the city
found that as many as 63 per cent of women commuters covered in the
survey faced eve-teasing on public transport buses in the city, while
only about five per cent said the bus conductor intervened to help
them.

Based on the survey, a dialogue between administrators and citizens
was organised at Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Cultural Auditorium on Saturday
in which representatives of Aalochana, Arogya Sena, Akhil Bharatiya
Janawadi Mahila Sanghatana, Asha participated.

"Even though the PMPML administration has kept reserved seats on the
left side of the buses, the conductor cannot always keep an eye on
them. Since his main job is to issue tickets and collect money, it is
difficult for him. The women commuters as well as co-passengers should
raise a voice if any male passenger is encroaching upon the reserved
space. Even though the PMPML administration cannot do much about the
eve-teasing incidents per se, we will have to think about appointing
flying squads to curb such incidents," PMPML spokesperson Deepak
Pardeshi said.

"Many a times, even if the conductor takes the bus to police chowkies,
women do not come forward to register complaints against the
encroachers," he added

Sanyogita Dhamdhere of Centre For Advocacy and Research, said,
"Eighteen organisations together had run a signature campaign with a
list of five demands forwarded to PMPML. The demands include a
helpline for women who face sexual abuse while commuting, special
buses for women on certain routes and increasing frequency of buses,
permission for women and old people to board the buses from the front
doors, so that the incidents could be curbed."


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Subject: [ZESTCaste] Illiteracy main cause of backwardness of ST/SCs: Sociologist

http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_illiteracy-main-cause-of-backwardness-of-st-scs-sociologist_1473021

Illiteracy main cause of backwardness of ST/SCs: Sociologist

Published: Saturday, Nov 27, 2010, 19:00 IST
Place: Morigaon (Assam) | Agency: PTI

Eminent sociologist TG Jogdamb today said that illiteracy was the main
cause of backwardness of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in
India.
"Successive governments have taken several populist measures to uplift
the Scheduled Castes and Tribes in the country but illiteracy remains
the main cause for their backwardness", Jogdamb said while delivering
the key-note address of an UGC National seminar on 'Scheduled Caste in
India dimension of their socio-economic mobility, inequality and
discrimination'.

Emancipation of Dalit, Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other
Backward Castes (OBCs) should not be just a political slogan but
should be earnestly implemented by the authorities by primarily
focussing on eradication of illiteracy, he said.

"Dr Ambedkar has emphasized on education among all sections of people
in free India's constitution", he added.


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[ZESTCaste] Concern over ‘misuse' of SC/ST atrocities Act

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/article916748.ece

SRIKAKULAM, November 27, 2010

Concern over 'misuse' of SC/ST atrocities Act

Staff Reporter

'Only five out of 45 cases filed in last one year are genuine'


Crying foul: Leaders of dalit associations submitting a memorandum to
Collector N. Srikanth in Srikakulam on Friday. — Photo: Basheer The
Police Department has expressed serious concern over rising incidents
of misuse of SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act-1989 to settle
personal scores. As per the Act, the police will arrest the accused
immediately and send him/her to judicial custody. Bail will be allowed
only 20 days after the arrest. It causes mental agony among the
accused, particularly those who are arrested on a false complaint. The
department, which conducted a thorough inquiry into the grievances
under the Act, found that many complaints were lodged with
ill-motives. Only five out of 45 cases filed in the last one year
proved to be genuine while the rest aimed at only harassing their
opponents.

Srikakulam District Superintendent of Police T. Panasa Reddy asked all
the police officials concerned to book cases under IPC 177 against
persons who lodge false complaints under the Act.

Mr. Reddy said that SC/ST persons were engaged to guard disputed
lands. Cases were being registered under the Act as soon as anybody
approached them to claim the land. Higher officials in various
departments were being harassed with the frequent threat of
subordinates to file cases against them under the Act.

Warning

"We have found that a few leaders are encouraging others to file cases
under the Act to make their opponents fall in line. The police will
not be silent if the Act is misused to settle scores with rivals. The
very purpose of the Act will be defeated with false complaints," Mr.
Panasa Reddy said.

Meanwhile, a few dalit associations organised a rally urging the
government to protect their rights. They submitted a representation to
district Collector N. Srikanth seeking a direction to the police to
act swiftly when cases were filed under the Act.


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[ZESTCaste] Punia prevented from addressing sanitation employees’ meeting

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Punia-prevented-from-addressing-sanitation-employees--meeting/717243

Punia prevented from addressing sanitation employees' meeting

Express News Service Posted online: Sun Nov 28 2010, 06:46 hrs
Lucknow : The chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled
Castes, PL Punia, also a Congress MP, was on Saturday prevented from
addressing a meeting of a Dalit organisation at the Triloki Nath hall
of the Lucknow Nagar Nigam.
Earlier, the Nagar Nigam had given permission to hold the meeting at
the hall to Akhil Bharatiya Swachhkar Mahasabha, an organisation of
sanitation employees..

In protest, the meeting was held on the road in front of the Lucknow
Nagar Nigam's office.

"The Lucknow Nagar Nigam had earlier given the permission for the
meeting to the organisation which is headed by Shyamlal Pujari, also a
member of the UP Congress Committee. But today, after they cancelled
the permission, we held the meeting outside the office of the Nagar
Nigam," said Punia.

He said it was a serious infringement of Dalits' rights. "The
Commission will take cognisance of the blatant act of the UP
government in denying the permission for holding the meeting and will
seek report from the government. If need be, it will also summon the
government officials," said Punia.

He said: "I am at my wits end to understand why the BSP government
headed by Mayawati gets so panicky by my visit to Lucknow. Ahead of my
visit to Lucknow in the first week of November, the hoardings put up
by my supporters were removed by the Lucknow Nagar Nigam. Later, the
government prevented my press conference at the VVIP guest house and I
had to hold it at the Press Club. Now they have stooped to the level
of preventing my meeting even at the public place."

Additional Municipal Commissioner Rajeshwar Singh, who is also the
spokesman for Municipal Commissioner of Lucknow Nagar Nigam SK Singh,
said, "I have no information as to who gave the permission and and who
cancelled it."

Dinesh Sharma, the Mayor of Lucknow, said, "The permission for the
programme to be attended by PL Punia was given on my recommendation. I
will inquire as to under what circumstances the permission was
cancelled at the last moment."

About the meeting the Commission is to hold with the UP government,
Punia said it will be in the third week of December.


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[ZESTCaste] Does Bihar show the way?

http://www.dailypioneer.com/299552/Does-Bihar-show-the-way.html

Does Bihar show the way?

November 28, 2010 10:19:48

Chandan Mitra

Post-Mandal, caste remains a key factor but vote-banks have been
dented by the mantra of development, holding out hope for Uttar
Pradesh

Long years ago one of India's first talk shows, A Question of Answers,
anchored by Vir Sanghvi, once featured a programme on social
empowerment. I recall one particular episode mainly because of Ms Uma
Bharati, who featured in it alongside Ms Meira Kumar, academic
Dipankar Gupta and I. Talking about the impact of the Mandal Report,
Ms Uma Bharati made a telling observation, saying that backward
classes had won the "roti ki ladai" but were far from victory in the
ongoing "izzat ki ladai". Projecting the BJP's plank of 'Ram, roti,
insaaf', she insisted that the real battle for backwards' empowerment
lay ahead, but could not be won without wider social acceptability,
thus faulting VP Singh's approach of pitting OBCs against upper
castes.

I recall Ms Uma Bharati's down-to-earth perception in the context of
the tectonic shift in north India's socio-political equations crafted
by the voters of Bihar. The architect of the shift is undoubtedly
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar who has emerged as the icon of post-Mandal
politics as a result of his ability to over-ride divisive caste
politics and inject the vitamin of development to cement a grand
social coalition, which paid the JD(U)-BJP alliance a phenomenal
dividend in India's most caste-driven State. It needs to be borne in
mind, though, that Ms Uma Bharati was not entirely right when she
claimed that backwards had won their battle for economic opportunity
with the implementation of the Mandal Report. Although VP Singh's
widely despised move was a landmark in the process of promoting
equality of opportunity, it was only a half-measure that benefited
only the upper strata (or creamy layer) among the OBCs.

Politically, however, the OBCs took a quantum leap in the 1990s with
Mr Lalu Prasad Yadav and Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav forging a new social
alliance, M-Y for short, to successfully dislodge the Brahmin-Thakur
dominated Congress coalition of the 1970s and 1980s. While the
Congress slid lower and lower in voter preference in the Hindi
heartland, the emotive appeal of the BJP's 'samrasta' philosophy,
fusing together social groups with conflicting interests, emerged as a
parallel electoral force, particularly in Uttar Pradesh.

But the Mandalites were far from exhausted. While Mr Mulayam Singh
Yadav at least made an attempt to reach out beyond the M-Y combine, Mr
Lalu Prasad Yadav stuck doggedly to the formulation, convinced it was
too preponderant in Bihar for him to be ever overthrown. He had reason
to be confident. With the feudal mindset more dominant among Bihar's
upper castes than elsewhere, he believed that the non-Yadav OBCs would
remain steadfast in their allegiance to the Yadav-led coalition. He
proved this twice, first in 1995 by winning a handsome victory in the
Assembly poll, negating the upper castes' fond belief that he could
win in 1990 only on the Janata Dal wave but never on his own. Although
on a lesser scale, he repeated his triumph in 2000, retaining power
for 15 unbroken years, much of it by proxy.

The stranglehold of Mandalite politics over Bihar did not break
easily: It took two elections within a span of seven months in 2005
for Mr Nitish Kumar to achieve what appeared impossible for a long
time. But once Bihar's voters decided to give post-Mandal politics a
leg up in November 2005, there has been no looking back. Mr Nitish
Kumar has been accused by Mandal purists of dividing the OBC coalition
by aggressively reaching out to smaller OBC communities, lower-caste
Muslims (Pasmanda) and creating a sub-group of 'Mahadalits'. In
effect, he pitted the MBCs (Most Backward Classes) against the
dominant Yadavs, who started behaving like a new elite. The doyen of
socialist politics in Bihar, Karpoori Thakur, had gauged the
importance of this section and carved a category called Extremely
Backward Classes (EBC), earmarking three per cent Government jobs for
them way back in the late-1970s. Thakur was sensitive to their
aspirations probably because as a Nai (barber), he belonged to the EBC
segment. Similarly, Mr Nitish Kumar's Kurmi origins may have given him
a good understanding of the non-Yadav OBC resentment that was brewing
under 15 years of Lalu-Rabri rule.

Although the Mandalite model has been dethroned, it would be naïve to
conclude, as many commentators have done, that caste factors have been
decisively trounced in this election. Caste has not disappeared from
voting behaviour, but castes have voted tactically to maximise their
clout. The BJP has benefited not only from upper caste consolidation,
but also the perception among many others that Mr Nitish Kumar too
needs to have a restraining hand over him. Angered they might have
been by Mr Kumar's Bataidari Bill, but the landholding classes decided
that he was a much better bet than Mr Lalu Prasad Yadav, provided some
checks and balances were put in place. The BJP's own brand of OBC
politics, personified in Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Modi, helped it
further to tilt the balance in most constituencies for, it has to be
borne in mind, upper castes do not constitute a majority even in a
single Assembly segment. Besides, the BJP has steadfastly sought to
build a social alliance comprising upper castes and OBCs, with a
smattering of tribals — Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Gujarat being
successful examples.

Perhaps the most significant aspect of the Bihar result is the
palpable division in the Muslim vote, which has hitherto determinedly
stuck to Mr Lalu Prasad Yadav or strayed occasionally to the Congress.
There is sufficient evidence to suggest that Muslims in many areas
overcame their traditional resistance to press the button against the
lotus symbol, while unhesitatingly voting for JD(U) candidates
elsewhere. Mr Lalu Prasad Yadav's M-Y bastion now lies in a shambles.
Does this indicate 'vote-bank politics', a euphemism for Muslim
appeasement by secular-fundamentalist parties, has reached a dead end?
That may be too hasty a conclusion, but Bihar shows that BJP may no
longer be untouchable for Muslims if they are convinced that checks
and balances are in place — a line of thinking somewhat in tandem with
upper caste reasoning.

But most importantly, Mr Nitish Kumar played on aspirations to break
the cast iron grip of vote-banks. Voters of every caste may have voted
mostly as a group, but the underlying reason for their voting
preference was the faith that economic prosperity can be ensured only
by the JD(U)-BJP combine; that the Lalu-Paswan team preached politics
that is passé; and that the Congress is a non-starter. Is this then
the new shape of post-Mandal politics? Can development modulate
watertight caste blocks and fuse them into viable socio-electoral
coalitions? If so, are we poised to see a similar tectonic shift in
Uttar Pradesh which has so far not succumbed to the appeal of economic
growth?

Ms Mayawati was handed a huge opportunity in 2007 when her watertight
Dalit vote was topped up by upper castes, especially Brahmins, to give
her a majority in the Assembly. She may still succeed in retaining
this alliance in the absence of alternatives. Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav
is fighting a rearguard battle on the receding shores of Yadav faith,
the Congress is more hype than substance and the BJP is nowhere near
recapturing the social alliance it forged in the 1990s. But with Bihar
showing the way, can Uttar Pradesh be far behind?


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[ZESTCaste] Taking cue from Nitish, Mayawati shifts focus to governance

 

http://mangalorean.com/news.php?newstype=local&newsid=209726

Taking cue from Nitish, Mayawati shifts focus to governance

Lucknow, Nov 28 (IANS) Obviously taking a cue from the success story
scripted by Nitish Kumar in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister
Mayawati has visibly shifted her focus to the hard issue of
governance, which was so far left to her select coterie of
bureaucrats.

This was clearly reflected in a review of the state's law and order
situation by her Saturday. Unlike in the past, when such meetings were
mere rituals where she made only a token appearance, while leaving the
actual task to Cabinet Secretary Shashank Shekhar Singh and Chief
Secretary Atul Kumar Gupta, she chose to sit through the day-long
meeting.

More importantly, she issued a warning to all divisional
commissioners, district magistrates, range deputy inspector generals
of police and district superintendents of police to pull up their
socks or face the music.

Issuing an ultimatum to the officials, she said: "Enough is enough. I
am giving you two months to improve the law and order in your
respective areas. I propose to start my surprise inspections with
effect from Feb 1. Those who fail to deliver should remain prepared to
face punitive action."

Mayawati sought to make it loud and clear that she would not spare
anyone for their lapses. "Those who perform would be duly rewarded,
while those who do not would have to face the music," she declared.

Pointing out that law and order was on the top of her priorities, she
told officials to observe "zero tolerance" to crime and criminals.
"Stern action against criminals alone can restore the sense of
security among the people," she said.

Laying much stress on the need to ensure communal harmony, she urged
the officials to maintain "strict vigil against incitement of communal
trouble". She recommended deterrent action against mischief mongers
behind any type of communal trouble in the state.

She also asked district magistrates as well as divisional
commissioners to start holding weekly review meetings at their
respective levels too.

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[ZESTCaste] 25th Ambedkar Memorial Lecture

 

25th Ambedkar Memorial Lecture

By K.R.Venugopal Retired IAS,

 Former secretary to the Prime minister of India

Subject:  Land and Dalits

Date: 06th December 2010

Place: Press Club, Basheerbagh, Hyderabad

 

Organised by:  DR.B.R.Ambedkar Memorial Trust, Hyderabad

 

Ganumala Gnaneshwar, Secretary

DR.B.R.Ambedkar Memorial Trust, Hyderabad

Phone 09440755954



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