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[ZESTCaste] Ghaziabad: Dalit youth self-immolates

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Ghaziabad: Dalit youth self-immolates
Tuesday, March 29, 2011, 13:15 [IST]

Ghaziabad, Mar 29: A dalit youth committed suicide by setting himself
on fire after a land dispute halted the construction of a temple in
Shahpur Fagota village near here, police said today.

Chetan took the extreme step following village Pradhan Narender Singh
Sisodia's alleged intervention in building the temple after which he
poured kerosene on himself on Saturday, they said.

The 22-year-old youth died yesterday and his body was cremated amid
tight security after tension mounted in the village over his death,
they said.

Additional District Magistrate (Executive) Ram Krishan Sharma and SP
(Rural) AK Mishra controlled the tense situation only after the police
registered a criminal case against Sisodia for instigating the youth
to commit suicide.

The victim's brother had lodged a complaint against the village
Pradhan, after which he allegedly escaped to avoid arrest, they said.

PTI

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[ZESTCaste] ‘Govt pursuing promotion quota for SC/ST in apex court’

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'Govt pursuing promotion quota for SC/ST in apex court'
Express News Service Posted online: Wed Mar 30 2011, 03:17 hrs
Lucknow : A day after Chief Minister Mayawati expelled BSP leader
Vinod Tejiyan from the party and sacked him from the post of
vice-chairman of UP Forest Corporation after he disrupted railway
traffic to demand reservation in promotions for Dalits in state
services, the UP government on Tuesday made an appeal to the SC, ST
employees not to indulge in activities that could cause law and order
problem. Tejiyan, who enjoyed the status of minister of state, was
arrested on Monday in Saharanpur.

Principal Secretary (Home) Kunwar Fateh Bahadur, who is also the
principal secretary in the Department of Appointment, said the state
government is pursuing the case of the reservation in favour of SC/ST
employees in the Supreme Court. He said the government filed a SLP in
the Supreme Court on January 4 against the decision of the Allahabad
High Court, which had quashed the provisions to provide consequential
seniority to SC/ST employees and reservation in promotion to them in
the state services. Bahadur said, the Supreme Court passed an order
stating: "Status Quo, as its exists today, shall be maintained by the
parties until further orders."

Meanwhile, Tejiyan who was released on bail yesterday, has been
declared an absconder by the GRP. ENS

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[ZESTCaste] SC, ST welfare: ‘we can see the figures but not the results'

http://www.hindu.com/2011/03/26/stories/2011032662471100.htm

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SC, ST welfare: 'we can see the figures but not the results'

Staff Reporter

MUMBAI: Plan after Plan and thousands of crores of rupees are allotted
for the welfare of the Scheduled Castes (SCs) and the Schedules Tribes
(STs).

Their condition, however, still remains dismal. "We can see the
figures, but we cannot see the results," activist Surekha Dalvi said
at a seminar on social sector budgeting here on Friday.

She said that funds for the Scheduled Caste Sub Plan (SCSP) and the
Tribal Sub Plan (TSP), meant specifically for these sections, got
routinely diverted for other purposes.

For instance, "TSP funds were used for the Surya dam in the
Adivasi-dominated area of Palghar in Maharashtra. It was said that the
water was meant for the Adivasis. However, we found it was being
diverted to the Vasai-Virar municipal corporation. This happens
everywhere," Ms. Dalvi said.

She said that on most occasions, the diversions were effected through
cabinet decisions by considerations of "special cases."

The Adivasis of Maharashtra form 8.9 per cent (around one crore) of
the total population of the State. More than 90 per cent of them are
below the poverty line, and a negligible 0.7 per cent is in higher
education.

"Five things were promised to them after independence — the right to
natural resources and forests, local administration, decision-making
power, cultural security, and the right to chart out their own
development path. None of this is reflected in the schemes formulated
for them," Ms. Dalvi said.

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[ZESTCaste] State limits SC, ST ‘free education’ plan

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State limits SC, ST 'free education' plan

March 30, 2011
DC Correspondent
Hyderabad

March 29: In a major jolt to meritorious students from BC, SC, ST and
minority categories, the state government has decided to limit the
free corporate education scheme to 5,500 students from 8,000. The
government issued orders to this effect on Monday and also exempted
Hyderabad district from the scheme as it is an "urban district". While
majority of the students who availed the scheme were from BC
categories, only 20 per cent of the seats have been reserved for these
categories in the latest orders.

Under the scheme introduced by late Chief minister Y.S. Rajashekar
Reddy in 2008-09, the government bears the tuition fee of Rs 35,000
plus Rs 3,000 scholarship per annum for each student who scored over
400 marks in SSC exams to enable them to study Intermediate in
corporate colleges like Narayana, Sri Chaitanya etc for two years. The
scheme was a huge success since it helped students from weaker
sections to pursue intermediate in some of the top corporate colleges
free of costs and enabled them to appear for national-level
competitive exams like IIT-JEE, AIEEE, AFMC, JIPMER apart from Eamcet.

However, the scheme ran into rough weather last year after the
government issued a GO in haste scrapping the scheme in May 2010
citing 'financial constraints'. However, it immediately backtracked on
its orders after it encountered stiff resistance from various BC, SC
and ST unions. Around 24,000 students have been admitted under the
scheme during the last three years and the government had paid Rs 90
crore to the colleges as fee. The scheme achieved desired results with
majority of those students securing seats in engineering and medical
courses.

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[ZESTCaste] Mayawati can''t hijack our following among Jats: RLD

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Mayawati can''t hijack our following among Jats: RLD
PTI | 11:03 PM,Mar 29,2011

Allahabad, Mar 29 (PTI) Attacking alleged "duplicity" of the ruling
BSP in Uttar Pradesh over the Jat stir, the Rashtriya Lok Dal today
said Mayawati would not succeed in "hijacking" its following among the
community accusing the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister of hoodwinking
them. "The repeated claims of Chief Minister Mayawati that she was
supportive of the Jats' demand for reservation is yet another example
of duplicity on her part. I have been raising the issue on the floor
of the Parliament and none of her MPs has ever supported me on the
issue in the House", RLD general secretary Jayant Chaudhary told
reporters here. He said the RLD fully supported the Jats' demand for
reservation, but did not approve of "the methods employed to raise the
issue, which has resulted in widespread lawlessness and inconvenience
to the general public". Chaudhary, who is the son of RLD supremo
Chaudhary Ajit Singh, also said his party suspected "the lawlessness
was stage-managed by the ruling BSP which is trying hard to cut into
our electoral base in Jat-dominated areas of western UP ahead of the
assembly elections due next year". "We are however confident that
Mayawati will not succeed in hijacking our following among the
community as we have been raising its concerns at the appropriate
forums unlike the ruling party which has only been hoodwinking them.
The ruling party's conspiracy is evident from the alacrity with which
the stir was pulled off and railway tracks were cleared once the
Allahabad High Court acted tough", he said. "People can not be fooled
so easily. They will see through the drama. In neighbouring Haryana,
which too witnessed similar agitations, the Chief Minister at least
had the decency to talk to the agitators and give the assurance that
he will do his bit. The UP CM has been doing little other than writing
letters to the PM and demanding more central forces to maintain law
and order", the RLD leader remarked. Chaudhary, who is touring eastern
Uttar Pradesh, said his party has "always supported creation of
smaller states for better governance" and it would do so with regard
to the demand for a separate state of Poorvanchal.

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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

[ZESTCaste] Ghaziabad: Dalit youth self-immolates

[ZESTCaste] ‘Govt pursuing promotion quota for SC/ST in apex court’

[ZESTCaste] SC, ST welfare: ‘we can see the figures but not the results'

[ZESTCaste] State limits SC, ST ‘free education’ plan

[ZESTCaste] Mayawati can''t hijack our following among Jats: RLD

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