http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Team-confirms-dalit-exodus-from-Karnataka/articleshow/6556396.cms
Team confirms dalit exodus from Karnataka
Senthalir S, TNN, Sep 15, 2010, 03.13am IST
BANGALORE: The exodus of Madiga (Dalit) community from Budihalli
village in Chitradurga district Karnataka on August 18, 2010, was
mainly because of intense social boycott and continuing sexual
exploitation of its women by landowners belonging to the Nayaka and
Golla communities. This was stated by the fact-finding team comprising
women's organizations from Bangalore and Mysore, corroborating the
report of TOI (August 26, 2010) which first wrote about this horrific
event.
The team, comprising People's Union for Civil Liberties of Mysore and
Bangalore, Samata Vedike of Mysore, Stree Jagruthi Samithi and AIPWA
of Bangalore, visited Venkateshwaranagar slum outside Chellakere,
Chitradurga district on September 5, 2010. The report talks about how
members of the Madiga community served as bonded labourers to
landlords belonging to Nayaka and Golla community in Budihalli, a
small village, 30km from Chellakere town.
"There was untouchability practized in the village. Rape, sexual
harassment and social boycott are the primary reasons for the families
that forced them to abandon their villages. These dominant communities
have tried to reinforce sexual servitude of Madiga women with the
practice of bonded labour. When women refused to cooperate, they were
verbally abused, threatened with torching the huts or false
implications in theft cases," the report said.
The report, to be released on Wednesday, stated that district
officials denied that women were raped and sexually harassed and no
cases registered by women in this. A fact-finding committee of the
government visited Budihalli and submitted a report denying there was
an exodus.
Stating the report submitted by the DC was false, Geetha Menon of
Stree Jagruthi Samithi said they would bring the problems of the
Madiga women to the notice of the Karnataka State Commission for Women
and principal secy of women and child welfare department.
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