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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

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From: Aaditya Dar <aadityadar@gmail.com>
Date: 2009/11/7
Subject: seminar on AA

Centre for Political Studies, JNU and the Indian Institute of Dalit Studies
A two day British Academy funded International Seminar
On
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND INEQUALITY IN SOUTH ASIA
on
9th - 10th November, 2009
at Committee Room, SSS-I

Programme attached

--
-Aaditya

Centre for Political Studies, JNU and the Indian Institute of Dalit Studies

A two day British Academy funded conference
On
INEQUALITY AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

(Venue: Committee Room, SSS-1,
9th -10th November)
9th November 2009

Session-1

10.00am -11.00 am: British Academy Project on Inequality and Affirmative Action
Introduction by:
Dr. Alpa Shah (Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London)
Dr. Ajay Gudavarthy (Centre for Political Studies/JNU)
Dr. Mukta Lama (Sociology, Tribhuvan University)
Short Presentations by:
Dr. Sara Sneiderman (St. Catharine's College, Cambridge)
Dr. Rob Higham (Institute of Education, University of London)
Dr. Sanghamitra Misra ( Jamia Millia Islamia)

11.00am-11.15am: Tea Break

Session-2 Chair: Prof. Valerian Rodrigues
11.15am–1.00pm: Theorising Inequality and Affirmative Action

Prof. Neera Chandoke (Political Science, DU): Equality for what?

Prof. Gurpreet Mahajan (Centre for Political Studies, JNU):
Affirmative Action and

Historical Injustices

Dr. G. Aloysius (social activist): The Reservation Discourse as viewed
from within its
Historical and
Ideological Contexts.

1.00pm–2.00pm: Lunch Break

Session-3 Chair: Dr. G. Aloysius ( Social Activist)
2.00pm–3.30pm: Categorisation and Historical Aspects

Dr. Kamala Shankaran (Law Faculty, D.U): Constitution,
Reservations and Courts

Prof.Om Gurung (Anthropology, Tribhuvan University): Indigenous
Peoples of Nepal:
Problems and
Issues of Identification and Classification

Suvash Dharnal (Dalit rights activist): Dalits and Affirmative
Action in Nepal: Issues and
Contestations

3.30pm-3.45pm: Tea Break

Session-4 Chair: Prof. G. Haragopal (Political Science,
University of Hyderabad)
3.45pm-5.30pm: OBCs and the Current Debate
Prof. Dipankar Gupta (Sociologist): Reservation or Affirmative Action?
Case of the OBCs

Prof. Satish Despande (Sociology, DSE): Empirical Injustice,
Practical Politics and

Theoretical Justice

Prof. Ronki Ram (Political Science, Punjab University): Struggles for
Reservation: OBCs in

Punjab
Dr. Lucia Michelutti (Oxford): The Politics of Aspiration:
Reservation, Politics and Goonda Raj in
Uttar Pradesh

10th November 2009

Session – 1 Chair: Prof. Sudha Pai (CPS/JNU)
9.30am – 11.00am: Women and Religious Minorities

Dr. Nivedita Menon (SIS/JNU): Women, Identity and Reservation

Prof. Surinder Jodhka (Indian Institute of Dalit Studies): Affirmative
Action and the

Question of religious Minorities

Prof. Zoya Hasan (Centre for Political Studies, JNU): Politics of
Inclusion: Caste and

Minorities.

Session-2 Chair: Prof. Virginius Xaxa (Sociology,DU)
11.00am – 12.30pm: Reservation for Dalits and Indigeneous People

Prof. Gopal Guru (Centre for Political Studies, JNU): A Biography An Argument

Dr. Clarinda Still (South Asia Studies, Oxford): 'They have it in
their stomachs but they can't
Vomit it up': Reservations
and 'caste feeling' in Rural SouthIndia

Prof. Manoranjan Mohanty (Council for Social Development): Reservation and Self

Determination

Dr. Anand Teltumbde (Independent Researcher): Reservations within
Reservation : A Case

Study of Sub-Castes.

12.30pm-12.45am: Tea Break

Session-3 Chair: Prof. Manoranjan Mohanty (Council for
Social Development)
12.45pm-2.00pm: Education and New Dimensions

Prof. B. S. Chimni (JNU): Legal Education :Emerging Dimensions

Prof. G. Haragopal (Political Science, University of Hyderabad): The New Tribal

Universities and Higher Education in India.

Dr. Amman Madan (Sociology, IIT Kanpur): Three Models of Merit: Some Contrasting

Implications for Pedagogy and Social Stratification.

Dr. S. Srinivasa Rao ( Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies/JNU): Higher
Education Reform and
Affirmative Action: Dilemmas of Equality.

2.00pm - 2.45pm: Lunch Break

Session – 4 Chair: Prof. Balveer Arora (Centre for Political Studies, JNU)
2.45pm-4.15pm: New Commissions and Alternative Mechanisms

Prof. Madhava Menon (Chairman: Equal Opportunities Committee): Proposed Equal

Opportunity Commission.

Prof. M.H. Qureshi (Centre for Study of Regional Development, JNU): Debating JNU

Model of Affirmative Action.

Dr. Chaitanya Subba (Advisor to the National Planning Commission and
Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities) and,

Dr. Lynn Bennett (World Bank, Kathmandu): Affirmative Action and
Autonomy: Debate

within and outside C.A Precinct.

4.15pm – 4.30pm: Tea Break

4.30pm Onwards : Chair: Prof. Nandu Ram (Dean, SSS/JNU)
:Valedictory Address by Prof. S. K. Thorat
(Chairperson, UGC)

<*>Attachment(s) from Siddhartha Kumar:

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Monday, November 9, 2009

[ZESTCaste] HRD ministry seeks details of backlog on SC, ST vacancies in AU

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/allahabad/HRD-ministry-seeks-details-of-backlog-on-SC-ST-vacancies-in-AU/articleshow/5207540.cms

HRD ministry seeks details of backlog on SC, ST vacancies in AU
TNN 7 November 2009, 09:45pm IST

ALLAHABAD: In order to clear the backlog of vacancies and promotion of
the Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST) and other backward
classes
(OBC) categories, the human resource and development (HRD) ministry
has asked all the Central universities, including Allahabad
University, to furnish a detailed report regarding appointment and
promotion of such employees.

The letter comes in wake of a special recruitment drive launched by
the department of personnel and training to clear the backlog.

The letter, DO No 19-30/2008-Desk (U), dated October 23, has been
signed by RD Sahay, director (CU) of the department of higher
education, HRD ministry. the ministry has sought a report about the
backlog existing in the vacancies filled in direct recruitment quota
in respect of the universities and report about the same under the
promotion quota.

The letter mentions the delay over submission of the said report by
the authorities of AU which they had to send in July. Following the
delay, Sahay has written to vice-chancellor Rajen Harshe and requested
him to look into the matter and provide the reports in the prescribed
formats.

The ministry has sought details, regarding backlog in direct
recruitment of vacancies under group A, B, C and D as on November 1,
2008; number of vacancies advertised and number of backlog vacancies
filled. Such information are been asked individually for SC, ST and
OBC candidates in AU and other Central universities.

Similarly, the ministry has also asked the information pertaining to
backlog in promotion. It not only asks for number of vacancies
identified as on November 1, 2008 but also the details of number of
backlog vacancies for which the candidates are not available even in
the extended zone of consideration.

The university would sent the information on priority basis, said
registrar JN Mishra.

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[ZESTCaste] KCR warns Andhra, Rayalaseema realtors

http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=KCR+warns+Andhra,+R%E2%80%99seema+realtors&artid=8bOOS1tasog=&SectionID=xAV59odivTs=&MainSectionID=xAV59odivTs=&SEO=&SectionName=BUzPVSKuYv7MFxnS0yZ7ng==

KCR warns Andhra, Rayalaseema realtors

Express News Service

First Published : 09 Nov 2009 02:12:02 AM ISTLast Updated : 09 Nov
2009 09:24:05 AM IST

HYDERABAD: Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) president K Chandrasekhara
Rao has demanded that the State Government take action against
landgrabbers who belong to the coastal and Rayalaseema districts.

The TRS leader has alleged that realtors belonging to these two
regions are creating problems in the Telangana region.

The TRS was fighting against the Coastal and Rayalaseema district land
grabbers, he said, while making it clear that his party was not
harming ordinary people of both regions who migrated to Hyderabad in
search of livelihood.

The TRS leader said that if the State Government did not take action
against the landgrabbers, the party would launch a `direct action'
against them.

He wrote an open latter to Chief Minister K Rosaiah on this issue,
alleging that realtors were violating all the Acts and Supreme Court
judgments for expanding their business.

Talking with reporters at Telangana Bhavan, his party's headquarters,
here today, Rao said that one of the real- estate organisations, which
promoted East City, forcefully occupied nearly 600 acres land
belonging to Dalits and tribals near Bibinagar in Nalogonda district.

One of the Rayalaseema MLAs occupied nearly 38 acres which was
assigned to Dalits by the government at Bachupaly village in
Qutbhllapur mandal which comes under Grater Hyderabad Municipal
Corporation (GHMC).

``Several real-estate organisations occupied nearly 400 acres near the
Hitec City which actually belongs to an Arya Samaj-sponsored trust.

Coastal Andhra settlers occupied nearly 400 acres at Laxminagar
village in Papannapet mandal in Medak district,'' he alleged and
released a CD and other documents to substantiate his allegations of
landgrabbing.

The TRS president left for Delhi to submit memorandums on Telangana
issue to the President, prime minister and Leader of the Opposition in
the Lok Sabha.

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Saturday, November 7, 2009

[ZESTCaste] Tiruvallur peace meeting fails

http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=Tiruvallur+peace+meeting+fails&artid=xTu7aEKfTqc=&SectionID=lifojHIWDUU=&MainSectionID=fyV9T2jIa4A=&SectionName=rSY%7C6QYp3kQ=&SEO=P%20D%20Dinakaran,%20CPM,%20V%20Palanikumar,%20CPI%20(M)

Tiruvallur peace meeting fails

V Gangadharan

First Published : 07 Nov 2009 03:25:00 AM ISTLast Updated : 07 Nov
2009 08:14:28 AM IST

CHENNAI: A peace meet convened by Tiruvallur District Collector V
Palanikumar on Friday to convince CPM activists and their affiliates
to give up their plan to enter the land at Kaverirajapuram that is in
the alleged illegal possession of Karnataka Chief Justice P D
Dinakaran, to redistribute it, ended in a fiasco as the CPI (M) and
the district administration stuck to their respective positions.

According to sources in the Tiruvallur District Collectorate, the
meeting was a failure because of the insistence of the protestors that
the land in question (poromboke land and water bodies) be distributed
to the people immediately.

"The government cannot act like individuals and we should follow the
established procedures as set out in the law. Now that the Supreme
Court is enquiring into the issue, it is only reasonable that we
wait," a senior official said.

CPM functionaries, had a different take. Speaking to Express, CPI (M)
state secretariat member and TN Vivasayigal Sangam treasurer P
Shanmugham said the collector wanted the demonstration to reclaim
government lands to distribute it to Dalits and the landless people on
November 9 be withdrawn at all costs.

"The Collector said that the issue was in the Supreme Court and wanted
the agitation to be abandoned." It was pointed out that the view was
incorrect as no case was pending in the apex court on the land under
encroachment.

"The issue before the SC collegium is the elevation of P D Dinakaran
and not land distribution to the Dalits." The district administration
itself had identified the extent of encroachment of land, water bodies
and other common utilities in Kaverirajapuram.

"Tell me, what stops the authorities from redistributing the land?
There is no stay or an order by the Supreme Court to maintain status
quo as regards the government land under Dinakaran's illegal
possession," " Shanmugham said.

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[ZESTCaste] Dalits should unite to oppose atrocities: Raghavulu

http://beta.thehindu.com/news/cities/Vijayawada/article44259.ece

News » Cities » Vijayawada VIJAYAWADA, November 6, 2009

Dalits should unite to oppose atrocities: Raghavulu

Special Correspondent Share · print · T+
THE HINDU FOR A CAUSE: CPI (M) State secretary B.V. Raghavulu
affectionately holds a toddler, daughter of a dalit victim in a case
of atrocity, during a dharna christened "Dalit Aatmagaurava Poratam"
organised by Kulavivaksha Vyathireka Porata Samithi, at
sub-collector's office in Vijayawada on Thursday. PHOTO: RAJU.V
Dalits should unite cutting across party lines to oppose the growing
number of atrocities on them, Communist Party of India (Marxist) State
Secretary and Kulavivaksha Vyathireka Porata Samithi (KVPS)
vice-president B.V. Raghavulu has said.

Participating in the dalits' "Aatmagaurava poratam" (struggle for
self-respect) here on Thursday, Mr. Raghavulu said it was time the
State government took up the matter seriously and resolved the problem
of the dalits.

Pointing out that justice had not been done in any of the eight cases
of atrocities on the dalits in recent times, the CPI(M) leader said
that the movement for self-respect was peaceful at this stage but if
there was no response even after the agitation the "consequences would
be severe."

The Justice Punnaiah Commission had clearly stated that lower rung
police officials were unable to deal with cases of atrocities on SCs
and STs and that an officer of the rank of deputy superintendent or
above should conduct an inquiry into these cases. This was not being
done according to the KVPS activists, Mr. Raghavulu said.

No action

The CPI (M) State secretary said that the details of the atrocities in
which no action was taken by the Government machinery would be taken
to the notice of the Home Minister, DGP and even the Chief Minister.

Unless the dalits opposed the atrocities with unity the perpetrators
would not stop, he said, giving the example of a dalit youth of the
Congress party being beaten up and not rescued by the other parties.
"Next time a dalit of a different party is attacked, dalits of the
Congress will not go to his rescue," he said.

KVPS State leader Annavarapu Nageswara Rao said neither the Krishna
district superintendent of police nor the Vijayawada commissioner of
police went to inquire about the atrocities in their respective
jurisdictions because the police were trying to protect the interests
of non-dalit sections.

Not booking cases

The police were not even booking cases against the non-dalit
perpetrators without the dalits launching agitations, he alleged. KVPS
had the support of 35 dalit organisations and civil societies in this
agitation that would be intensified if the Government did not take
proper action.

KVPS district president Neelam Pullaiah said that the police who
should protect the weaker sections were ganging up with the rich and
powerful.

KVPS State secretary J. John Wesley and MRPS district secretary Manda
Venkateswara Rao spoke.

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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

[ZESTCaste] Fwd: seminar on AA [1 Attachment]

Monday, November 9, 2009

[ZESTCaste] HRD ministry seeks details of backlog on SC, ST vacancies in AU

[ZESTCaste] KCR warns Andhra, Rayalaseema realtors

Saturday, November 7, 2009

[ZESTCaste] Tiruvallur peace meeting fails

[ZESTCaste] Dalits should unite to oppose atrocities: Raghavulu

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