By Express News Service
20 Mar 2010 08:39:21 AM IST
Outfit seeks separate state for dalits
BHUBANESWAR: The State Ambedkar Chinta- Chetana Parishad, an
organisation of tribals and dalits, has demanded a separate state for
the two backward sections of the society.
The working president of the organisation Debaraj Naik has said in a
statement that the separate state should be created with 40 percent of
the land of Orissa.
He has threatened that if the State Government failed to fulfil the
demand, the Parishad will launched a statewide agitation to press for
it.
The demand for the separate state has been made before the State
Government and the Centre.
Naik said that a meeting of tribals and dalits have been convened here
on March 28 to discuss the issue and take necessary steps.
Criticising the State Government for shedding crocodile's tears over
the plight of the people of these backward sections, the Parishad
alleged that in name of education, the tribal girls have been pushed
to sexual exploitation.
He alleged that the constitutional provision for equality has not been
implemented properly as a result of which Dalits and tribals are still
at the lower strata of society.
Demanding that the authorities should amend the land settlement acts
so that land can be transferred to the dalits and tribals, Naik
alleged that 99 percent people of these two sections do not have land.
Besides, a majority of dalit and tribal people are yet to get any
homestead or agricultural land even so many years after independence
because of there is no sincerity in implementation of the decisions
made for their welfare, he said.
He warned that if corrective action was not taken, things will go out
of hand soon.
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