Saturday, February 12, 2011

[ZESTCaste] Boot polish, ego maalish (Opinion)

 

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/opinion/edit-page/Boot-polish-ego-maalis\
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COMMENT
Boot polish, ego maalish
Feb 12, 2011, 12.00am IST

Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. However, power feet can
rejoice. As UP chief minister Mayawati has shown, the feet of the high
and mighty only get five-star treatment. Recently, as she alighted
from a helicopter touring Auraiya, apparently distressed by the sight
of mud on her shoes, personal security officer Padam Singh got down to
duty, whipping out his handkerchief and polishing the dirt off
Madame's footwear. Although howls of protest followed, we say, why
ever not? Far from being demeaning, the sole-ful episode is just right
before Valentine's Day! According to legend, Sir Walter Raleigh
gallantly spread his cape over a puddle for Queen Elizabeth to cross.
Today, Padam Singh has proved that chivalry is far from dead. In
modern-day UP it is in fact down on all fours, prostrate before the
object of its adoration.

There are delightful details to celebrate here. While displaying how
very gentlemanly government servants can be, the incident also
highlights high standards of health. Few other people are so
extraordinarily supine, so seemingly lacking in the restricting
vertebrae of the back, so able to stretch, bend and lie down flat
before power feet. Baba Ramdev and all our Himalayan sages, please
note; daily yoga of this kind can also achieve that desired state of
perfect boneless-ness. With this 'power yoga', some people don't even
need their spinal kundalini to rise, since they don't have one.

But why just congratulate Padam for his devoted kadam? The ability to
achieve a 180-degree posture on the floor before power feet is alive
and kicking across India. Down south, supporters routinely perform
shashthang pranams before their chiefs, undertake pilgrimages for
their welfare, even commit suicide for them. In a delicious 007
mish-mash, this is dying to live another way. But there's something
just so compelling about power feet. Since crowns attract frowns, it's
down to the toesie-woesies to show how mighty their owners are.

How better to express this than a love affair with shoes? The rishta
with jootas can take myriad forms. Imelda Marcos famously possessed
thousands, so quit carping about Mayawati and count the number of PSOs
the Philippines must have needed. George W Bush, champion of Iraqi
freedom, found lots of love sent back to him via a flying shoe, as did
recently that diehard supporter of democracy, Pervez Musharraf. It
really is time for Manolo Blahnik, Salvatore Ferragamo and all the
uptown mochis to brave the heat and dust and fly to Lucknow. Just
imagine how much free publicity they'd get the next time Madame's PSO
feels duty calling. With TV shows, editorials and reportage covering
such devotion, they'd hit pay dirt. And it will certainly happen
again. If the shoe fits, people will clean it. And pray while doing so
that they may just escape the boot.

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[ZESTCaste] Dalit girl killed for protesting harassment

 

http://www.sify.com/news/dalit-girl-killed-for-protesting-harassment-news-national-lclukjajehe.html

Dalit girl killed for protesting harassment
2011-02-11 20:10:00

Bhopal, Feb 11 (IANS) A minor Dalit girl died in Madhya Pradesh Friday
after a boy who was harassing her set her ablaze after pouring
kerosene on her, police said.

The gory killing took place Thursday in Narsinghpur district, about
200 km from here. The girl was rushed to a hospital where she
succumbed to her injuries Friday.

The killer, Dasrath Choudhary, had been arrested, Superintendent of
Police G.G. Pandey told IANS.

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[ZESTCaste] Atrocities against SC/ST on the rise

http://www.thestatesman.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=358807&catid=42

Atrocities against SC/ST on the rise

11 February 2011
rajib chatterjee
KOLKATA, 11 FEB: Atrocities on people belonging to Scheduled Castes
(SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) in West Bengal have gone up in the last
year, compared to the two previous years.
This was revealed in a report prepared by the state backward class
welfare department before the meeting between state government
officials with the members of Parliamentary committee on Welfare of
the Schedule Castes and Scheduled Tribes held in the city on 3
February. The report comes at a time when the state government has
been claiming repeatedly that it has achieved significant success in
improving the living conditions of, , as well as protecting, people
belonging to SC/ST categories.
A senior official, who attended the meeting, told The Statesman that
the members of the Parliamentary committee have expressed concern over
increasing incidents of atrocities against people coming from these
two categories.
The report states that a total of 29 incidents of
"harassment/atrocities" on SC/ST people were reported in West Bengal
in 2008. In 2009, 25 complaints of "harassment/atrocities" on SC/ST
people were registered in the state. Last year, the number rose to 42.
The official said the Parliamentary committee members have been told
that all the "cases have duly been registered and investigation is in
progress". The report points out that one "SC and ST Protection Cell"
at the state headquarters has been set up and police administration in
districts "promptly attends cases of atrocities".
A committee comprising senior officers and special courts have been
set up in every district while Special Public Prosecutors have been
appointed to deal with the cases.
On the issue of securing employment on the basis of false caste
certificates, the state government has reported to the Parliamentary
Committee members that "few complaints have come to their notice".
"During the last three years, about 100 certificates have been
cancelled". Certificate issuing authorities (Sub-divisional officers
in districts and additional district magistrate South 24-Parganas in
case of Kolkata) initiates proceeding if reports of obtaining caste
certificates through misrepresentation of facts come.
The report also brought to light that "in a few cases" land belonging
to ST category people "have been allowed to be acquired after ensuring
acceptable compensation for the tribal person selling the land." "In
all such cases, provisions of Land Reforms Act have been strictly
adhered to," the report states. The report has stated that 61.14
hectares of "tribal land" was "transferred" in 2009-10 year compared
to 45.28 hectares and 31.55 hectares in 2008-09 and 2007-08
respectively.


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[ZESTCaste] Dalit girl assaulted; one arrested

 

http://news.oneindia.in/2011/02/12/dalitgirl-assaulted-onearrested-aid0126.html

February 12, 2011

Dalit girl assaulted; one arrested
Saturday, February 12, 2011, 1:30 [IST]

Varanasi, Feb 11: A dalit girl was teased and beaten in Banaras Hindu
University this afternoon leading to protests near here following
which one of the accused was arrested.

Buzz up!
Agitated over the incident, students gheroed the residence of the
University Vice Chancellor.

VC Prof D P Singh has assured the students that strict action will be
taken against the culprits.

The victim -- Sonia was coming out of BHU health centre with her
friend Santosh Chandravesh this afternoon when Shailendra Shekhar, a
former student of the university and Gulab Singh abused her and later
even physically assaulted her, officials said.

Sonia and Santosh received head injuries, they said.

Gulab Singh has been arrested while Shailendra is absconding, they said.

PTI

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[ZESTCaste] Video: Dalit girl's friend breaks her silence

 

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Dalit girl's friend breaks her silence

Published On: February 8, 2011 | Duration: 1 min, 51 sec

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The girl, Chhaya, who accompanied the dalit girl - who was maimed for
resisting rape – spoke to NDTV about the unfortunate incident. Had
Chhaya not raised the alarm, her dalit friend would have bled to
death.

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[ZESTCaste] Dalits Recount Travails in Existing Order

http://pd.cpim.org/2011/0213_pd/02132011_13.html

February 13, 2011

MADHYA PRADESH

Dalits Recount Travails in Existing Order

Vinay Dwivedi

I HAVE been a municipality chairperson, and now my wife is the
chairperson. I have been active in the district for three decades,
first as a student leader and now as a kisan leader. Yet, wherever I
go to a village, I have to take a seat at the end of the cot. The
upper caste people are not able to say anything if I do not wash my
teacup, but they do feel offended. On many occasions, there is an
attempt to hurt and weaken me by asking about my caste.

Prem Narayan Mahaur, a leader of the CPI(M) in Bhind district, thus
gave went to his sense of pain at a two-day workshop recently
organised by the Madhya Pradesh state committee of the party in
Bhopal, the state capital, for its dalit cadre. He said even if we do
not feel weakened when someone asks our caste, the questioner does
feel encouraged that he may try to suppress us. He said not even a
dalit MP or MLA, what to talk of a dalit sarpanch (chairperson), can
get the street repair work done or a handpump installed in a dalit
hamlet. The situation is so dire that doctors of the Bhind district
hospital punished a former dalit MLA when his son asked the doctors in
a loud voice why they were not attending to his patient. The panchayat
secretary in Harichha village beat up a dalit woman and then compelled
her to leave the village. In another village, the husband of the
chairperson, a dalit woman, told an upper caste person that
certification of the latter's application would have to be verified
through on-the-spot inspection. The upper caste people then beat this
dalit man up and got both his hands chopped.

Rambabu Jatav from Gwalior said he is a well-known leader of the
CPI(M) and his wife has been a member of the district panchayat. Yet,
he is unable to sell his ancestral land in a village in Moreina
district, measuring five and a half bighas, simple because this plot
is surrounded by the plots belonging to upper caste people and hence
no one dares come forward to purchase it. Under compulsion, dalit
people in all but two villages of the area have sold their lands off
and migrated to the nearby cities.

Senior CPI(M) leader Jagannath Bharati, a member of its state
committee, described the situation of caste oppression in Indore. He
said Radhakishan Malaviya was a Congress MLA, a Rajya Sabha member and
once the state president of the Congress party, but yet his son had to
dismount from his horse in Datoda village when Malaviya took his son's
marriage procession there.

Baijnath Pippal from Moreina said quarrels often take place over the
presence of a horse or a music band in a dalit's marriage procession.
Quite common are the tactics of reaping the crops standing on dalits'
lands, vandalising their houses and stealing their cattle, in order to
compel them to give up their lands. More than half of the dalits who
had some land 20 years ago are landless now. Cooperative societies too
discriminate against these people in providing them fertilisers, seeds
or loans, instead of extending them protection. Most of the books they
get are out of syllabus. Banks do not open their accounts for long
periods --- so much so that the scholarship cheques that they get are
often lost or get outdated. The plight of dalit hostels is quite
pathetic. Their kitchens have been handed over to contractors.
Children do not get the food that is mentioned in the menu. There are
no latrines in dalit habitations; in the dark of the night women often
go to the railway line to relieve themselves and now and then a woman
comes under a running train. Dalit women are subjected to all kinds of
atrocities. Elected dalit representatives are not much better either.
A dalit woman was elected chairman of the district panchayat, but she
has not to date got the car due to her. Whenever government officials
visit a village with a dalit sarpanch, the latter is called to the
Patel's house. An example of the continuing practice of untouchability
is that dalits were not allowed to enter the Basiaya Mata temple when
they brought a new dress for the goddess. When this became a hot
issue, the CSP intervened and there was a compromise that dalits must
hand the cloth over to the pujari of the temple who would then dress
the goddess. Dalits were still not allowed to enter the temple.

According to Pappu Ahirwar from Guna district, if the ghada (earthen
water-pot) of a dalit accidentally touches that of an upper caste
person, the latter breaks his ghada and charges its price from the
concerned dalit. Though Guna is the home district of former chief
minister Digvijay Singh, the system of a separate water pitcher and
separate teacups is still in vogue in the teashop at Painchi village
in the district. The same was the situation in Chanchaura village till
recently; after protests, dalits now get tea in disposable cups here.
Dalit woman don't have the courage to sit down on the floor in
presence of an upper caste person.

Narayan Bhaskar from Shahdol said there are separate bathing ghats
downstream for dalit masses. Dalit habitation in a village is quite
apart from the other houses. Dalits cannot pass in front of a caste
Hindu house and have to dismount from their bicycles whenever they
come here.

Another activist from Moreina district complained of anti-dalit
discrimination in government offices. There one sees separate water
pitchers for dalit people. Unions too do not treat dalit employees on
an equal footing. The latter still feel a distance between themselves
and their leaders.

Balwant Soni from the same district said dalits have not yet got
physical possession of the lands for which they got the pattas under
dalit agenda. Though the Ladli, Lakshmi and some other schemes extend
assistance for a girl's marriage at or after 18 years of age, the
harsh fact is that a dalit is compelled to arrange his daughter's
marriage at 15 or 14 in order to save her from molestation. He is
afraid even of sending his daughters to a school, more so if the
school is outside the village.

Kamal Singh from Gwalior said dalit women do not dare to take water
from a public handpump till caste Hindu women get their pitchers
filled up and go away. Their plight is particularly bad in summers
when the water level goes down and handpumps cannot fetch water up.

An activist from Ratlam said the plight of dalit children's education
is quite pathetic. They are enrolled in schools but there is no
arrangement for them to attend classes. Contracts for mid-day meal
have been doled out to NGOs which never provide food as per the menu.
Though the promise was to disburse the scholarships by November 30,
they had not been disbursed by the January end. In private schools,
either the dalit scholarship forms are not filled up or the schools
themselves devour the money. Authorities demand domicile and other
certificates pertaining to as far back as 1950 before issuing a caste
certificate. The landless, in particular, are unable to provide the
same. Though the government is making a hype of its bicycle donation
scheme, it issues only Rs 2,300 to a dalit child for purchasing one,
while the least a bicycle costs is Rs 3,000. Similarly, a dalit girl
is given Rs 90 for a uniform and Rs 10 for a footwear, but these
amounts are totally inadequate for these things. As for books, only a
few of them are available; most of them are not. Concerned teachers
are penalised if students get these books from the market.

Hanumant Rao from Bhopal said in Khajuri village, only 5 km from the
state capital, separate cups and pitchers are there for dalit
customers in teashops. In Chhatarpur, Rao's own district, dalits
cannot enter a temple. They have to perform a puja from 20 feet away.

Ganesh Ram from Ashok Nagar said dalit streets in villages are never
cleaned. Caste Hindus are in possession of the lands that were
allotted to dalit people. The sad plight of elected dalit
representatives is evident from the fact that while the panchayat
secretary and others perpetrated frauds in Sirsi village, the dalit
sarpanch was forced to give his thumb impression on the records. Now
he has been charged with embezzlement of Rs 1.5 lakh and he will have
to sell his land, measuring 5.5 acres, to make the loss good.

Jitendra Riparia from Bhind said there are no latrines in dalit
hamlets; liquor shops are of course quite nearby. There are no
electricity polls in these hamlets and the inhabitants have to arrange
wires for a mile or two to get power. For this too, they have to pay
to the caste Hindus. They have also to pay electricity bills of 700 or
800 rupees even while no polls are there.

Vinod from Anooppur said municipal dalit employees are not allowed to
enter the office of the municipality except on the salary distribution
day. Caste Hindus are driving the vehicles that were given to dalit
people under the Anta-Vyavasayi scheme.

Jugal Kishore Pippal presided over the workshop which 33 dalit
activists of the party from 13 districts attended.

While deciding to intensify the campaign against caste oppression, the
workshop decided to organise a state-level broad-based convention in
Bhopal on February 13 on the issue. Before that, all the units of the
CPI(M) would organise padayatras in dalit habitations all over the
state. Later, one-day conventions of dalit women at the block level
will also be organised. A two-day workshop of dalit students will also
be planned.


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[ZESTCaste] Karnataka govt to adopt SC/ST small-land-holding farmers

 

http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_karnataka-govt-to-adopt-sc-st-small-land-holding-farmers_1506524

Karnataka govt to adopt SC/ST small-land-holding farmers
Published: Friday, Feb 11, 2011, 21:13 IST
Place: Bangalore | Agency: PTI

The Karnataka Government has decided to adopt SC/ST families who owns
less than one acre of land and provide them with all facilities to
take up agricultural operations including borewell for irrigation
under 'Ganga Kalayan scheme.'

The government would be bringing one lakh SC families and 50,000 ST
families under the scheme from this year, agriculture minister Umesh
Katti told reporters.

There are 76 lakh farmers engaged in farming in the state and SCs
account for eight lakh and STs five lakh, he said.

The chosen families would get free of cost agricultural implements,
sowing seeds and two oxen, Katti said.

As against the target of 120 tons,food production during this year has
exceeded by five tons touching 125 tons due to good rains.

Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa is all set to present the state's first
ever agriculture budget on February 24, he said. Yeddyurappa is also
presenting the state's 2011-12
budget on that day.

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[ZESTCaste] SC/ST scholarship

 

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/136960/scst-scholarship.html

SC/ST scholarship
Kolar, Feb 11, DHNS:

February 15 is the last day for online registration for SC/ST
post-metric scholarship for the year 2009-10 and 2010-11. Students
must submit their photo and thumb impression to Srinivaspur Social
Welfare Department.

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[ZESTCaste] SC/ST Commission Visits Uthapuram

http://pd.cpim.org/2011/0213_pd/02132011_17.html

February 13, 2011

SC/ST Commission Visits Uthapuram

Ganesh

DESPITE the deployment of heavy police force on January 31, dalits in
Uthapuram showed they are firm in their struggle. The way they have
organised themselves and the efforts of their leaders to be with them
on the D-Day showed that why the name Uthapuram greatly inspires the
dalits of Tamilnadu.

The state were taken aback when the National SC/ST Commission showed
interest in the issue. Vice chairman of the commission, Dr Rajkumar
Virk, told a private television channel that the commission had
written to the Madurai district's superintendent of police seeking
explanation as to why dalits were denied entry into the Muthalamman
temple. The commission has asked the SP to reply within 15 days.

During their visit to Uthapuram on February 7, commission members
Iniyan and Chandraprabha interacted with local dalits for more than an
hour and they inspected the Untouchability Wall and the path that was
created after demolishing a portion of that wall. When asked by
reporters, they said they would submit a report to the commission
soon.

THEY WON THEIR DUE

THROUGH STRUGGLE

At Gudiyatham, Thangam Nagar in Vellore district, 36 dalits and
Muslims were evacuated by the real estate people who have connections
with the ruling party. The CPI(M) and TNUEF took up the cause of these
people and conducted many struggles. The decision was that a struggle
to resettle the families in taluk office would be organised on
September 12, 2010, if they were still denied their right. The
administration called the leaders and families for talks, but slipped
out away without signing an agreement. It was alleged that the leaders
were arrested by the police.

The people, who have lost their residence, were staying in a place at
the mercy of some people. When no solution to the issue came up, the
TNUEF decided to go in for a demonstration in front of the district
collector's office. It was announced that TNUEF president P Sampath,
its general secretary K Samuel Raj, K Bala Bharathi (MLA), G Latha
(MLA) and CPI(M) district secretary A Narayanan would take part in the
demonstration. This prompted the district administration to take
action and distribute the pattas for alternative land to the affected
people. A Narayanan and G Latha took part in the patta distribution.


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