By Express News Service
30 Jan 2010 02:00:00 AM IST
End Dalit discrimination: Union Minister
KOCHI: Union Minister Mukul Wasnik on Friday said that the Centre
would rehabilitate those who are engaged in manual scavenging by March
31, 2010."Those engaged in manual scavenging will be rehabilitated by
March 31.
The Centre has also decided to undertake a special project across
44,000 villages in the country for the uplift of Scheduled Castes and
Scheduled Tribes," the Minister said launching the Self Help
initiative titled 'Panchami' of Kerala Pulayar Maha Sabha (KPMS) at
Marine Drive here.
Wasnik said the Centre was in a continuous dialogue process with the
private sector for ensuring equal employment opportunity for the SC
and ST community in the private sector.
"A co-ordination committee under the chairmanship of Principal
Secretary to the Prime Minister has been constituted to continue the
process," the Minister said adding that the Centre had allotted Rs 750
crore for providing scholarship to 38 lakh students belonging to the
SC/ST communities.
Stating that the people of the country should come together to prevent
artrocities against the SC/ST communities, Wasnik said that 35,000
cases were registered in the country under the Scheduled Caste and
Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
"In Kerala, 477 cases have been registered under the Act in 2007.
Why a state like Kerala with a record of good literacy rate and good
human development index have cases registered under this Act? This
shows that still the SC/ST communities are being targeted. The Centre
and the State Government should work together to launch a campaign to
change the mindset of people and bring down the rate of atrocities
against the SC/ST people," he added.
Union Minister of State for Agriculture K V Thomas, Forest Minister
Benoy Viswom, Dominic Presentation MLA, Panchami chairman T V Babu and
KPMS general secretary Punnala Sreekumar were present on the occasion.
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