Wednesday, April 7, 2010

[ZESTCaste] Tally to raise the standard of Dalits in Bihar

 

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Tally to raise the standard of Dalits in Bihar
By siliconindia news bureau
Tuesday,06 April 2010, 17:32 hrs

Bangalore: Tally solutions announced the first batch of beneficiaries
under the Bihar Mahadalit Vikas Mission (BMVM). As per the
understanding with the Government of Bihar, Tally will conduct its
training programs on Tally. ERP 9 in all the 38 districts of the state
and help the government in its initiatives to raise the socio-
economic status of the Mahadalit community in Bihar. The project will
target 1140 beneficiaries in the first phase.

Avinash Gupta, President of Tally Solutions said, "Tally endeavors to
aid in the socio-economic improvement of the Mahadalit community
through training and development activities. The Tally Academy offers
a structured, sustainable framework to impart skills to unemployed and
underemployed, and hence help the community earn acceptance in the
society."

BMVM with the SC-ST Welfare Department had started the Dashrath Manjhi
Kaushal Vikas Yojna under the direction and vision of the Chief
Minister Nitish Kumar, whose dream is to raise the communities falling
under the category of Mahadalits from just a miserable existence. BMVM
conceived and executed this project in the state of Bihar targeting
all such communities.

One of the beneficiaries of the program said, "I am preparing myself
to gain knowledge and support my family by securing a job and earn a
status for my family and myself in society." Complete funding towards
the project is borne by BMVM including a daily stipend of Rs. 75 to
the beneficiaries till completion of the training programme.

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[ZESTCaste] Beefing up a law

http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/stories/20100423270812100.htm

LEGISLATION

Beefing up a law

VIKHAR AHMED SAYEED

The Karnataka Prevention of Slaughter and Preservation of Cattle Bill,
passed by the State Assembly, raises a wave of protests .


K. BHAGYA PRAKASH

Members of various Dalit organisations staging a protest against the
Bill in Bangalore.

The butchers at Bangalore's largest beef market, in Shivajinagar, are
a worried lot. On March 19, the Karnataka State Assembly passed a Bill
that proposes to ban completely the slaughter of cattle in Karnataka.

"I see this as a conspiracy by the Bharatiya Janata Party [BJP]
government in the State against minorities and backward castes," said
Suhail, a young butcher whose livelihood depends on the procurement
and sale of beef.

Another butcher remarked that the elections to the Bruhat Bengaluru
Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), held on March 28, could be the main reason
for the Bill's passage at this juncture. Elections to the 198 wards of
the BBMP were held more than three years after the term of the last
council ended. The keenly contested elections had 1,336 candidates,
including those from the three leading political parties in the State
– the BJP, the Congress and the Janata Dal (Secular).

Behind the beef market and in the thickly populated lanes of
Shivajinagar is the office of Khasim Aijaz Quraishi, the president of
the Beef Merchants' Association of Karnataka. Quraishi is furious that
the government could contemplate such an enactment when 35 lakh people
in the State were dependent on the trade in beef. The figure, he said,
included people involved in the ancillary activities such as
transportation of cattle, the leather industry and the meat packaging
industry.

"While theBill seems to be targeted at Muslims, what the State has
overlooked is that almost all the people involved in the associated
trades are non-Muslims," he said His estimate of the number of people
is not backed by any documentary evidence, but there is no doubt that
if all the people involved in all the ancillary trades of the beef
industry are enumerated, it will be a huge figure.

A complete ban on the slaughter of cattle figured in the manifesto of
the Bharatiya Janata Party when it contested the elections to the
Legislative Assembly in 2008. Once the party emerged as the single
largest party in the Assembly and formed the government with the
support of independent legislators, right-wing pressure groups within
the party began demanding that the pre-election promise be fulfilled.

The government first introduced the Bill in the Assembly last year but
withdrew it on March 3, a couple of days after the communal skirmish
over the publication of Taslima Nasrin's translated article in a
Kannada newspaper (see Frontline, March 26). However, it was
reintroduced in a much more draconian form a few days later as the
Karnataka Prevention of Slaughter and Preservation of Cattle Bill of
2010, which proposed to replace the Karnataka Prevention of Cow
Slaughter and Cattle Preservation Act of 1964.

There are two major differences between the two pieces of legislation.
The latest Bill extends the prevention of slaughter to "cattle", which
it defines as "cow, calf of a cow and bull, bullock, buffalo male or
female and calf of she-buffalo". The 1964 Act had its scope restricted
to the slaughter of cows, calves of cows and calves of she-buffaloes,
but allowed the slaughter of bulls, bullocks and buffaloes if they
were over 12 years of age or if they were no longer fit for breeding
or draught or did not give milk.

The other difference is the severity of the penalty. The maximum
imprisonment for violating the provisions of the 1964 Act was six
months whereas the 2010 Bill prescribes imprisonment extending up to
seven years. It is this that has made people question the intentions
of the State BJP government as in the Indian Penal Code, imprisonment
for such long terms is usually meant for crimes of a far more heinous
nature.

Karnataka, especially its coastal areas, has routinely been the target
of right-wing groups who use the cow slaughter issue to create
communal tensions. Skirmishes follow allegations of transporting of
cows for slaughter.

In March 2005, a 60-year-old man and his son were stripped, paraded
and beaten in public for trying to buy a calf in Udupi district. In
another incident in May 2006 in the same district, an elderly Hindu
man was killed for being a middleman in the sale of cows. The
involvement of fundamentalist organisations such as the Bajrang Dal
and the Hindu Yuva Sena was alleged in both these incidents.


M.A.SRIRAM

Right-wing groups in the State use the cow slaughter issue to create
communal tensions.

Activist groups such as the Karnataka Komu Souharda Vedike (KKSV, or
the Karnataka Communal Harmony Forum) feel that the harsh clauses of
the 2010 Bill will be used to target religious minorities.

The Bill has come under the scanner for two other reasons. First, for
its interference in the food habits of people – apart from the
religious minorities, a large number of backward caste people consume
beef. Second, the excessive burden that the Bill will place on
farmers, who will now have to look after their aged cattle instead of
selling them off to meat traders.

Members of Dalit communities across the State have protested against
the Bill, saying that it is a case of interference with their food
habits and fulfilment of the upper-caste, Hindutva agenda of
"Sanskritisation".

Ideologues of the Dalit cause such as Kancha Ilaiah have, in the past,
argued that beef-eating is an inherent part of the lower-caste
identity. Many opponents of the Bill quote extensively from D.N. Jha's
2002 work, The Myth of the Holy Cow, which expounds that in the Hindu
religion, "the 'holiness' of the cow is a myth and that its flesh was
very much a part of the early Indian non-vegetarian food regimen and
dietary traditions". Jha writes that beef-eating is not Islam's
bequeathal to India, as is commonly believed. He cites Vedic sources
to demonstrate Indra's preference for ox meat and Agni's and Soma's
fondness for cow meat.

The cow emerged as the rallying point for communal mobilisation in
northern India in the late 19th century. It was the reason for riots
on several occasions in pre-independent and post-independent India.
There is evidence to show that many rulers in medieval India banned
the killing of cows. And when the issue came up for discussion in the
Constituent Assembly debates, the Drafting Committee decided to
include cow protection in the Directive Principles rather than accept
the demand for a total ban on cow slaughter across the country. The
demand for a total ban continued in independent India, the apogee of
which was in 1966 when a large crowd marched to Parliament and the
Shankaracharya of Puri decided on an indefinite fast demanding the
same.

The demand was raised sporadically across the country even after that,
and a few States such as Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh banned the
slaughter of all cattle. When the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance
(NDA) was in power at the Centre, it had tried to introduce the
'Prevention of Cruelty to Cow Bill' in 2003 but its efforts failed as
it could not build a consensus on the issue. While most States across
India have banned the slaughter of cows but not other cattle, it is
legal to slaughter cows in Kerala, West Bengal and in the
north-eastern States.

The Bill was passed in the Karnataka Assembly by a voice vote after a
lengthy debate and amidst protests from the Opposition parties. Chief
Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa said that the aim of the Bill was to
preserve the rich cattle wealth of the State and should not be
construed as being against any particular community. He said it was in
accordance with Article 48 of the Directive Principles. But the
government will find it more difficult to get the Bill passed by the
Legislative Council, where it does not have a clear majority. The
Governor's sanction will follow this approval.

If the Bill becomes an Act and the sale of beef is completely
forbidden in the State, it will be the responsibility of the State
government to provide for the upkeep of lakhs of head of cattle. This
will increase the burden on the State exchequer.

The ban will also bring about a change in the dietary habits of lakhs
of people. Beef is relatively cheap, selling at between Rs.100 and
Rs.120 in Bangalore, while mutton sells at double that price. The BJP
government has not given a thought to this or to the livelihood
problem of lakhs of people involved in the cattle meat trade while
attempting to appease its right-wing constituency.


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[ZESTCaste] UPCC googles out Babuji as party's Dalit poster boy

 

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UPCC googles out Babuji as party's Dalit poster boy

Manjari Mishra, TNN, Apr 7, 2010, 06.01am IST

LUCKNOW: If his newly set up fan club in Andhra Pradesh unit clamours
for a Bharat Ratna for Babu Jagjivan Ram, UP congress also rediscovers
Babuji just a week ahead of the party's high-powered rath yatra. The
month and a half long jamboree is to be flagged off by AICC general
secretary rahul Gandhi in chief minister Mayawati's hometurf Ambedkar
Nagar on April 14.

As the D-day gets closer, the former deputy prime minister has made a
sudden appearance on flex hoardings as a Dalit icon in the company of
Bhim Rao Ambedkar. The BSP, which is busy planning a parallel show
same time same place, finding it too good a opportunity to miss and
has termed the duo's inclusion as an afterthought and a cover up
excise.

High drama unfolded in Ambedkar Nagar last week as local BSP cadre
charged Congress party with "deliberate omission of Dalit leaders.
Absence of Dr Ambedkar whose birth anniversary was chosen for the
launch from the publicity material, in fact raised quite a few titters
in Maya camp. An alarmed UPCC woke up to the blunder and rushed a
fresh consignment of publicity material on Monday. And now blame game
begins.

A section of Congressmen blame the oversight to over eagerness of
colleagues, others alleged UPCC had nothing to do with controversial
posters. "They were sponsored by our political rivals to embarrass us,
one senior functionary told TOI on Tuesday.

The fresh batch - the officially approved and printed by the UPCC - he
claimed, more than made up for the lapse, though sources confided that
hunting for Jagjivan Ramji's photograph was not an easy task. Already
a forgotten figure - none remembers the last function held to
commemorate his memory - the party archives could yield only one photo
which was anyway was found unfit for reprint. Finally the media team
turned to the internet and downloaded the picture so that Babuji could
make his new-age debut.

"Being a chamar, Ram becomes extremely relevant in current scenario
here. Highlighting him, therefore, was most vital. The rath yatra, its
venue, the date have a clear message, that is to lay our claim to
Dalit vote bank. In view of this, the slip was avoidable," a party
functionary remarked. "How could they forget to include him in the
posters when his 103 birth centenary being celebrated as a week long
festival in Andhra Pradesh," asked another.

This is the second roadblock the much-hyped yatra has hit much before
its launch. First it was the venue controversy, as district
administration cancelled the ground demanded by Congress leaders. Even
as the party cried foul -- Joshi alleged the potholed ground allotted
to Congress was a deliberate act -- district authorities explained
that BSP made the first claim and therefore had the first choice.

Even though Congress has taken remedial measure the BSP camp is in no
mood to let go of the issue. Their fresh target is the size. Pictures
of BR Ambedkar, Gandhi, Patel, Shastri are all in postal stamp size
and are eclipsed by the present crop of Delhi leaders, they complain.
But the objection is overruled this time . "You can't please everyone
all the time," says RP Tripathi, the brain behind the design and
execution of publicity material. Not in Ambedkarnagar at least.

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[ZESTCaste] JNU students protest against non-implementation of faculty quota

 

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JNU students protest against non-implementation of faculty quota

2010-04-05 20:30:00

A group of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) students protested here
on Monday against the administration outside the office of the
University Grants Commission (UGC) for not filling up reserved faculty
positions.

Students said the directives and the constitutional provisions in
implementation of reservation policy in filling up faculty positions
meant for Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST) and Other
Backward Class (OBC) candidates were not being followed by the
university.

Reportedly, the JNU administration had rejected the cut-off criteria
for SC/ST/OBC candidates over the past two years.

The protestors claimed that at a meeting held on March 31, the JNU
administration cited 'legal ambiguity' as an excuse in not filling up
the reserved faculty positions.

The meeting was held to finalise SC and ST candidates for the posts of
associate professor and professor and OBC candidates as assistant
professors.

"According to the Supreme Court and Ministry of Human Resource
Development, each and every central university has to implement
SC/ST/OBC reservation. But in our campus our administration is not
ready to implement reservation in the campus," said Priya, one of the
protestors.

"They are saying that if SC/ST/OBC teachers and students will come in
the university to teach and to study, the standard of JNU will
decrease. So according to the JNU administration they don't want to
implement the reservation," she alleged. (ANI)

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[ZESTCaste] Battle for Dalit votes hots up in Bihar

 

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Battle for Dalit votes hots up in Bihar

Dipak Mishra, TNN, Apr 7, 2010, 01.07am IST

PATNA: The battle for the Dalit votes is on in Bihar. The stakes for
state's tallest Dalit leader, Ram Vilas Paswan, is high and he has
been busy trying to counter his chief political advisory chief
minister Nitish Kumar on the issue. Holding a series of meetings,
Paswan has given a call to Dalits to boycott Nitish Kumar for
allegedly insulting them by calling them "Mahadalits". His party has
petitioned the National SC/ST Commission chairman Sardar Buta Singh to
direct the state government to dissolve the Mahadalit Commission.

He has also ridiculed Nitish's claim on showering gifts to Dalits and
makes promises. "When we return to power we will purchase back the
house of late Bhola Paswan Sastri (former CM of Bihar) and turn it
into a museum. Nitish recently remarked that he would rename a park in
Sastri's name as if he was doing a favour to some beggar," Paswan
said. He alleged that the 3-decimel land given to Dalits were
"troubled land". "We will give each Dalit family one bigha of land
when we come to power," he said.

During the last three years, Nitish has been targetting the section of
Dalits he has christened as Mahadalits consisting of 23 of the 24
Dalit sub-castes __ leaving out only Paswans from the ambit.
Originally he included 18 of them. He added four more. Just after the
defeat in the bypolls, he added the Ravidas sub-caste-who are
numerically even stronger than the Paswans.The NDA organized the
Mahadalit meet in Patna which was considered in political circles as a
success.

"Our government has provided 18 per cent resevation to SCs and STs in
panchayat bodies as a result of which over 1,400 mukhiyas in the state
are Dalits," deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi said. He also pointed towards
the government's initiative of providing Rs 10,000 to each Dalit
students who passed their exams in first division.

The LJP chief enjoyed the status of "King maker" in Bihar for a
decade. He used to flaunt the fact that when he was with the NDA the
political scales tilted towards the NDA and when he joined the UPA the
situation resevered with the UPA sweeping the polls. He declared that
because he had fougth the assembly polls independently, the NDA
managed to emerge victorious. However, the 2009 Lok Sabha stripped him
of the the "King-maker" image as the RJD-LJP alliance came a cropper
and Paswan himself lost. With his very political survival in the state
is under question. Paswan is going all out to maintain his Dalit
mascot image.

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[ZESTCaste] 16 get death sentence in Bihar Dalit massacre

 

http://news.oneindia.in/2010/04/07/16-get-death-sentence-in-bihar-dalit-massacre.html

16 get death sentence in Bihar Dalit massacre

Wednesday, April 7, 2010,15:30 [IST]

Patna, Apr 7: A Bihar court on Wednesday, Apr 7, awarded death
sentence to 16 people and life imprisonment to 10 others in the
13-year-old Laxmanpur Bathe carnage case.

Buzz up!The verdict was pronounced by Additional District and Sessions
Judge Vijay Prakash Mishra of Patna court.

The court also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on those sentenced to life.

With this verdict, the families of the victims have finally got
justice nearly 13 years after the massacre took place.

58 Dalits, including 27 women and 10 children, were gunned down by the
Ranvir Sena, a private militia of land owners, at Laxmanpur Bathe
village on Dec 1, 1997.

Earlier, the case was transferred to Patna from Jehanabad following a
Patna High Court order in Oct, 1999.

Charges were framed in the case against 46 Ranvir Sena men on Dec 23, 2008.

Around 91 of 152 witnesses in the case had deposed before the court.

OneIndia News

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[ZESTCaste] Mayawati is stone-hearted 'Murti-devi', says Congress

 

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Mayawati is stone-hearted 'Murti-devi', says Congress

2010-04-05 20:40:00

The Congress Monday lashed out at Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister
Mayawati for seeking funds for implementing Right to Education Act in
the state, calling her a stone-hearted 'murti-devi' (statue).

'Murtidevi Mayawati is saying like stone-hearted statues that there is
no money for education of children,' Congress spokesperson Abhishek
Manu Singhvi told reporters here.

'She has raised statues worth crores and is now raising a force for
their protection... but she has no money to spend on education of
children. This reflects the thinking of Murti-devi Mayawati who is
anti-people, anti-children and against empowerment of people,' he
added.

The Right to Education Act came into force April 1 and promises free
and compulsory education up to Class 8 in the country.

Singhvi said: 'It's a political mindset that injects politics into
welfare of Uttar Pradesh children.' Mayawati fears that if 'people
become educated and start thinking properly, they would start
questioning her decisions about constructing her own statues,' he
added.

Singhvi said implementing the Right to Education countrywide would
require Rs. 1.7 lakh crore in the first five years, of which 55 per
cent would be provided by the central government and 45 per cent by
states.

The state government is required to provide less than half of
Rs.18,000 crore to implement it, he said, adding that of the 90 lakh
to 95 lakh children out of school in the country, one-third are in
Uttar Pradesh.

The act provides for education to students in the age group of 6-14
and specially focuses on bringing 8.1 million children of this age
group back to classrooms.

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[ZESTCaste] Fwd: Dalit entrepreneur

 

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> From: chandrakant khaire <dhamma_milind@yahoo.co.in>
> Date: Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 1:32 PM
> Subject: [sakya] dalit entrepreneur
> To: BuddhistCircle@yahoogroups.com
> Cc: mfc_mumbai@yahoogroups.com
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> please visit the following link of successful dalit entrepreneurs  from pune.thia report was showed on ndtv india programe
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> http://www.tubaah.com/details.php?video_id=135858
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> Sakya Means Humanity.
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> May all beings be happy!
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> "I have never claimed to be a universal leader of suffering humanity. The problem of the untouchables is quite enough for my slender strength. I do not say that other causes are not equally noble. But knowing that life is short, one can only serve one cause and I have never aspired to do more than serve the Untouchables."  Bodhisatta Babasaheb B.R.Ambedkar
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> "The basis of my politics lies in the proposition that the Untouchables are not a sub-division or sub-section of Hindus, and that they are a separate and distinct element in the national life of India." Bodhisatta Babasaheb B.R.Ambedkar
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> "My social philosophy may be said to be enshrined in three words: liberty, equality and fraternity. My philosophy has roots in religion and not in political science. I have derived them from the teachings of my master, the Buddha." Bodhisatta Babasaheb B.R.Ambedkar
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> Sakya Sangha
> 8/A, Thiyagarayapuram,
> Thangal, Thiruvottiyur,
> Chennai - 600 019.
> Tamil Nadu, India
> http://www.sakyasangha.org
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