http://www.hindu.com/2010/05/22/stories/2010052254030300.htm
Atrocities against Dalits on the rise: CPI(M)
Staff Correspondent
Party to stage dharna in Bangalore on June 10
Over 1,700 cases of atrocities reported from the State in 2008: Manpade
Only Rs. 3,553 cr. given for SC/ST welfare when Planning Commission
recommended Rs.7,300 cr.
DAVANGERE: Communist Party of India (Marxist) executive committee
member Maruthi Manpade has alleged that atrocities against the
Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes have been on the rise in
Karnataka over the past few years and, among the south Indian States,
Karnataka has reported the highest number of such cases.
Quoting from a commission report, Mr. Manpade said here on Friday that
over 1,700 cases of atrocities were reported in 2008 alone from the
State. He alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party Government in
Karnataka had failed to contain the cases of atrocities and provide
compensation to the victims.
The Planning Commission had instructed the State Government to
allocate Rs.7,300 crore to take up welfare measures for the Scheduled
Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, he said. The Government, however,
allocated only Rs. 3,553 crore, Mr. Manpade charged.
Further, he claimed that of the 75,000 applications the Government
received from tribal people for land pattas as per the Forest Dwellers
Act, 2006, it had issued only 300 pattas so far. To protest against
the State Government's apathy, the State unit of the CPI(M) will stage
a dharna in front of the Chief Minister's residence in Bangalore on
June 10.
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