Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Re: [ZESTCaste] Journalism students of SC/ST get sponsorship

This is Asian College of Journalism's website: http://asianmedia.org
And, you can find application details:
http://asianmedia.org/admissions/AD2010.asp

On 10 March 2010 16:53, Siddhartha Kumar <mailsiddhartha.k@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=Journalism+students+of+SC/ST+get+sponsorship&artid=Aqqy0VuLNBA=&SectionID=lifojHIWDUU=&MainSectionID=wIcBMLGbUJI=&SectionName=rSY%7C6QYp3kQ=&SEO=
>
> Journalism students of SC/ST get sponsorship
>
> Express News ServiceFirst Published : 10 Mar 2010 03:47:00 AM IST
>
> Last Updated : 10 Mar 2010 06:10:50 AM IST
>
> CHENNAI: Opening the doors for students from downtrodden communities
> in professional journalism courses, the Tamil Nadu Adi Dravidar
> Housing Development Corporation (TAHDCO), a Public Sector Undertaking
> by the Government of Tamil Nadu, has planned to sponsor 10 SC/ST
> students pursuing media courses in Asian College of Journalism from
> the forthcoming academic year.
>
>
> "A decision to this effect was taken at a review meeting of TAHDCO
> district managers in the city on Tuesday," Minister for Adi Dravida
> Welfare A Tamilarasi told Express. "As the presence of students
> hailing from the Scheduled Caste is low in the field of journalism, we
> felt the need for opening new avenues for them in this area of
> studies," she said and added that an amount close to Rs 3 lakh would
> be spent on each student.
>
> When asked about the selection criteria, she said ACJ would be
> involved in the process and the role of TAHDCO is confined only to
> sponsoring those students. Tamilarasi claimed that a student, who had
> got training in marine course with aid from the government, is earning
> a decent income.
>

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[ZESTCaste] Women's Reservation Bill: quotas even for SC/ST seats

 

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Women's Reservation Bill: quotas even for SC/ST seats

Press Trust Of India
New Delhi, March 09, 2010
First Published: 23:59 IST(9/3/2010)
Last Updated: 00:00 IST(10/3/2010)

Reservation of one-third seats in Lok Sabha and Assemblies for women
cleared by the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday will also apply in case of
constituencies reserved for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.

The landmark Women's Reservation Bill also envisages rotation of seats
so reserved for women.

In continuation of the existing provisions already mandating
reservations for scheduled caste and scheduled tribes, one-third of
such SC and ST candidates must be women, according to the provisions
of the Constitution (One Hundred and Eighth Amendment Bill, 2008),
popularly known as Women's Reservation Bill. There are 543 seats in
the Lok Sabha, out of which 122 are already reserved for SC and ST
candidates.

The Bill, which has touched a raw nerve in some political outfits,
seeks to insert two new articles in the Constitution to provide
one-third reservation to women in Legislatures.

"After article 330 of the Constitution, the following article shall be
inserted: 330A. Seats shall be reserved for women in the House of the
People," it said.

To provide reservation for women in state Assemblies, the Bill seeks
to insert Article 332A in the Constitution.

According to the Bill, provided that where a seat reserved for
Scheduled Castes and Schedule Tribes in relation to a state or a Union
Territory is one, then in every block comprising of three Lok Sabha
elections, the seat in the first LS election "shall" be reserved for
women belonging to SCs or STs "and no seat shall be reserved in other
two general elections".

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[ZESTCaste] 50 employees dismissed for furnishing false caste certificate

 

http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-67326.html

50 employees dismissed for furnishing false caste certificate

Bhubaneswar, Mar 9 : As many as 50 employees were dismissed from
service for submitting false caste certificate, Orissa ST/SC
Development, Minorities and Backward Class Minister Bijay Singh Bariha
said today.

Replying to a question of Mr Santosh Sigh Saluja (Cong) and Mr Pratap
Chandra Sarangi (Ind) in the state Assembly, the minister said the
government had so far received 1,624 false certificate allegations.

Out of the 1,624 allegations, as many as 148 cases had been disposed
of, he added.

Mr Bariha said committees at the Revenue Divisional Commission level
had been constituted to inquire into the allegations and disposed of
the cases speedily.

--UNI

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[ZESTCaste] Women's Reservation Bill: PM allays fears, says bill will not hurt interests of Muslims & dalits

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/Womens-Reservation-Bill-PM-allays-fears-says-bill-will-not-hurt-interests-of-Muslims-dalits/articleshow/5666538.cms

Women's Reservation Bill: PM allays fears, says bill will not hurt
interests of Muslims & dalits

10 Mar 2010, 1151 hrs IST, TNN

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday sought to allay the
apprehension that women's quota would undermine the interests of
Muslims and dalits.
Speaking in Rajya Sabha before the momentous Constitution amendment
bill was put to vote, Singh dismissed suggestions that the legislation
was directed against these social groups.

Terming the bill a "giant step", the PM acknowledged the backing of
the BJP and Left by pointing out that support for it was "near
unanimous". He said this was "living proof that the heart of Indian
democracy is sound and in the right place."

Regretting the disrespect shown to Vice-President Hamid Ansari on
Monday, the PM turned towards the chair and said, "On behalf of the
government, I owe you a profound apology."

He said to uphold the dignity of parliamentary democracy, it was
necessary to ensure that such unseemly incidents did not occur in the
House. He called for efforts to see that Parliament ran smoothly
without hindrance or chaos.


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[ZESTCaste] Please attend a meeting on special componant plan and tribal sub plan in hydernbad on march 17th 2010 [1 Attachment]

 
[Attachment(s) from Karthik Navayan included below]

Dear Friends

 
National Dalit Forum is Organising a meeting with all SC ST organizations and Leaders, Activists to discuss the implementation status of Special Component Plan and Tribal Sub Plan

 

Date: 17th March 2010
Venue: Sundarayya Vignana Kendram Mini Hall

Time: 5: 30 PM

 

All of you are requested to be present in the meeting and share your views and suggestions towards pressurizing the governments for the proper implementation of Special Component Plan and Tribal Sub Plan

 

A detailed Telugu pamphlet on the implementation status of SCP and TSP is attached with this mail with programme details  kindly go through it

 

 

Thanks and Regards

 

Karthik Navayan

Programme Officer

National Dalit Forum




--
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Advocate,
H.No. 21-7-761,
Opp.High Court Post Office,
Gansi Bazar, Hyderabad,
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http://sites.google.com/site/karthiknavayan/home
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[ZESTCaste] Nepal: 'Black' woman's tale drives Nepal rights campaign

 

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'Black' woman's tale drives Nepal rights campaign

2010-03-10 11:20:00

Dark, untouchable and a slave, yet Kali is the heroine of a campaign
to protect the rights of the disadvantaged communities of Nepal,
especially women.

She is the central character in a street play, 'Kali Aimai, the black
woman, which has been sponsored by the UN to tour Nepal's remote
districts to campaign against violence targeting women, exploitation
and untouchability, and to train local artists to spread the message
farther.

'While working in the far west, we found rampant economic, social and
cultural discrimination,' says Chitralekha Massey, coordinator at the
UN human rights office in Nepal that is sponsoring the theatre
campaign against discrimination.

'There was a complete sense of resignation: people accepted their
fates as their kismet. The complete culture of impunity in the legal
framework contributed to it.'

Though the government has abolished the 'haliya' system - the practice
of slavery that sees a family working for an employer without payment
all their lives - it still flourishes in Nepal. So does untouchability
and a form of violence particularly targeting women from poor
families. This is the 'bokshi' phenomenon in which villagers accuse
any woman they dislike of being a witch who has caused either deaths
or misfortune to them. The accused is forced to eat human excreta and
at times beaten to death or set ablaze.

The UN agency started its campaign with a comic strip to teach victims
and their families how to make a police complaint. It was followed up
with a TV campaign in partnership with the Prime Minister's Office.

However, the message did not reach rural Nepal, where there is no
electricity, literacy, running water or even motorable roads. So
Actors' Studio, a maverick theatre company in Kathmandu, was asked to
stage street plays in remote areas.

Performed at market places, bus stations and village meeting points,
Kali Aimai is the tale of a director who coaches the villagers to
perform his play after his actors fail to arrive due to a general
strike.

The plot is about a landlord trying to avenge himself on his slave,
Harka, and the latter's wife Kali, after they refuse to work for him
without wages. He accuses Kali of being a witch who tried to kill his
wife and villagers humiliate Kali on his orders.

However, the villagers roped in as actors revolt against the story and
force the director to change his play so that it ends with the
landlord and his henchmen being arrested by police.

While performing the play in different villages, the actors injected
local dialects and tales told by the audience to make it seem like
their own story.

'Women often cried during the performance and asked us to include
their plight during menstruation, when they are confined to a cowshed
and not allowed to enter their own houses,' said Tanuja Basnet, a
researcher with the project.

'They told us even government schools did not allow menstruating women
teachers to take classes.'

The cast includes actors from communities that are still regarded as
untouchables.

Crew member Hira Bijuli Nepali, a 20-year-old from Mugu district,
belongs to the Dalit community whose members are still not allowed to
enter temples or use the same water tap in a village.

Nepali says he is in the play as an 'investment' for his Dalit
brothers. 'I want to take to remote places the message that the times
have changed,' he says.

'People also need to change.'

(Sudeshna Sarkar can be contacted at sudeshna.s@ians.in)

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[ZESTCaste] Journalism students of SC/ST get sponsorship

http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=Journalism+students+of+SC/ST+get+sponsorship&artid=Aqqy0VuLNBA=&SectionID=lifojHIWDUU=&MainSectionID=wIcBMLGbUJI=&SectionName=rSY%7C6QYp3kQ=&SEO=

Journalism students of SC/ST get sponsorship

Express News ServiceFirst Published : 10 Mar 2010 03:47:00 AM IST

Last Updated : 10 Mar 2010 06:10:50 AM IST

CHENNAI: Opening the doors for students from downtrodden communities
in professional journalism courses, the Tamil Nadu Adi Dravidar
Housing Development Corporation (TAHDCO), a Public Sector Undertaking
by the Government of Tamil Nadu, has planned to sponsor 10 SC/ST
students pursuing media courses in Asian College of Journalism from
the forthcoming academic year.


"A decision to this effect was taken at a review meeting of TAHDCO
district managers in the city on Tuesday," Minister for Adi Dravida
Welfare A Tamilarasi told Express. "As the presence of students
hailing from the Scheduled Caste is low in the field of journalism, we
felt the need for opening new avenues for them in this area of
studies," she said and added that an amount close to Rs 3 lakh would
be spent on each student.

When asked about the selection criteria, she said ACJ would be
involved in the process and the role of TAHDCO is confined only to
sponsoring those students. Tamilarasi claimed that a student, who had
got training in marine course with aid from the government, is earning
a decent income.


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[ZESTCaste] Women's bill will impact caste struggle in India: Experts

 

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Women's bill will impact caste struggle in India: Experts

2010-03-10 14:40:00

's participation in politics, the historic bill to reserve 33 percent
of seats for them in parliament and the legislatures will impact the
country's political scenario, the patriarchal system and the caste
struggle in rural India, experts say.

Bibhu Mahapatra, consultant of the United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP) project on Legal Empowerment, said: 'The 73rd
constitutional amendment, passed in 1992, gave constitutional
recognition to local self governance and reserved 33 percent seats in
panchayats for women. This encouraged lakhs of women to enter public
life by giving more opportunities to them.'

'The Women's Reservation Bill will have a similar impact. It will also
impact the caste struggle. Today, there are questions asked about who
is more marginalised within the Dalit community and that is because
more women are in the forefront in politics,' Mahapatra told IANS.

The bill was passed by the Rajya Sabha after a lot of furore Tuesday.
The Lok Sabha, which has seen protests on the issue for the last three
days, is expected to pass the bill before it takes a three-week break
beginning March 16.

Said Kamal Mitra Shenoy, a sociologist at the Jawaharlal Nehru
University (JNU): 'In the beginning, there may not be much impact on
the caste struggle because the more dominant will field their
candidates into the political arena.'

'But with time, women will definitely be empowered because of the bill
as it will have its effect on patriarchy and change the gender
dynamics. You won't just have the wives and daughters of political
leaders being fielded,' he maintained.

Shenoy said the idea of a quota within quota - that is, reservation
for women from backward classes within the women's reservation - will
not do any good.

'There is no reservation for other backward classes (OBCs) in
parliament, yet there is a lot of OBC representation there. So,
reservation within reservation is not really needed,' he explained.

Mahapatra said the bill will also encourage political parties to
re-invent themselves.

'It will have a stimulating effect on the political parties. Parties
like the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)
have very little women's representation, but now they will have to
rope in more women,' he said.

Ranjan Sharma, a Delhi-based sociologist, said: 'More women would also
mean that there will be a sobering effect on parliament. You will most
probably not have so much hooliganism. Similarly, it will have a
civilising effect on the political parties.'

While Shenoy said the actual effect of the bill will be seen after 15
years, Mahapatra opined: 'In the next elections, the predictions and
calculations will be different because we will not just take into
account the SC/ST vote banks, but may be also the inclinations of the
women segment.'

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[ZESTCaste] South parties smile: Been there, done it

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/South-parties-smile--Been-there--done-it/588956

South parties smile: Been there, done it
Manoj C G Posted online: Wednesday, Mar 10, 2010 at 0030 hrs
New Delhi : In sharp contrast to the opposition to the Women's
Reservation Bill by satraps of the Hindi heartland, major political
parties from South India — whether it is arch rivals AIADMK and DMK in
Tamil Nadu or the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in Andhra Pradesh and even
the Muslim League in Kerala — have happily supported the legislation.
This despite the fact that almost all of them are in favour of an OBC
and Dalit sub-quota in the 33 per cent reservation. The competitive
politics in their home states have left them with little option but to
support the legislation now and campaign for inclusion of the quota
later.

It is no secret that successive governments in Tamil Nadu have played
the women card to the hilt. Whether it is the DMK's decision to give
equal rights to women in ancestral properties or providing 30 per cent
quota for them in government jobs or the all-women police stations and
the cradle baby scheme to prevent female infanticide introduced by the
AIAMDK, the competition was much visible.

Adding to the fact is that both the Dravidian parties were not worried
like their counterparts in Bihar or Uttar Pradesh — where almost all
the parties are against the Bill — about upper caste politicians
cornering the seats allocated to women.

The backward and most backward classes constitute over 65 per cent of
the population in Tamil Nadu, and even now majority of the cadre base
of both these parties as well as their MPs and MLAs belong to the
backward classes. Both AIADMK and DMK have made it clear that they
want OBC sub-quota but would prefer the Bill to see the light of day
first.

"There is a historical perspective to the support for the Bill in
Tamil Nadu. As early as in 1929, Periyar had talked of providing equal
rights to women in ancestral properties," DMK MP T K S Elangovan said.

Since Tamil Nadu has provided 33 per cent quota for women in local
bodies over a decade ago, AIAMDK and DMK are not much worried about
finding suitable women candidates. "We want the Bill to be passed
first. Demands including sub-quota can be looked into later," AIADMK's
V Maitreyan said.

The situation is similar in Andhra Pradesh. In fact, it was TDP
founder N T Rama Rao who, for the first time in the country, brought
in nine per cent reservation for women in local bodies. The successive
TDP and Congress governments also vied with each other to announce
schemes for women.

Even during the Assembly elections last year, while the late chief
minister, Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, announced Abhay Hastam, a monthly
pension scheme for women members of self help groups who have crossed
the age of 60, TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu promised to pay cash to
female members of all the families. But TDP leaders admit that the
party till some time ago was echoing the SP's demand for sub-quota for
OBCs and Dalits.


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[ZESTCaste] Madiga Dandora demands action

 

http://www.thehindu.com/2010/03/10/stories/2010031058840300.htm

Karnataka - Hassan

Madiga Dandora demands action

Staff Correspondent

All's not fair:Madiga Dandora activists taking out a rally in Hassan
on Tuesday in protest against the assault on Bhagyamma in Chitradurga
and demanding justice for her.

HASSAN: Activists from the Madiga Dandora led by district president
T.R. Vijaya Kumar demanded action against the people who stripped and
paraded a Dalit couple on January 17 in Lakshmisagara village in
Chitradurga district and the officers who reportedly misled the
Government.

In a memorandum addressed to the Governor and submitted to the Deputy
Commissioner, the activists said that in Lakshmisagara village, a
Dalit boy and a girl belonging to the Valmiki community had eloped and
left the village.

Village residents blamed Bhagyamma, a Dalit woman, for their elopement
and assaulted her and her husband, Sukhananda, before stripping and
parading them in the village. They were also reportedly taken to the
police station, where they were threatened by the local police
sub-inspector.

They also demanded a compensation of Rs. 5 lakh for Bhagyamma and her
family, the arrest of the assaulters and action against those who
allegedly tried to hush up the case.

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