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CM moots steps to stop atrocities on SC, ST
TNN | Apr 8, 2011, 08.04pm IST
PATNA: Police personnel will be given requisite training to sensitize
them to the provisions of the relevant Act and rules meant for the
prevention of atrocities on scheduled caste (SC) and scheduled tribe
(ST) people. Besides, meetings of reconstituted district-level
monitoring committees set up in this regard would be held regularly in
accordance with the annual calendar released from the state
headquarters.
CM Nitish Kumar, who is chairman of the state-level vigilance and
monitoring committee, said this on Friday during the high-level review
of the steps taken to prevent atrocities on SC and ST people as
stipulated in the SC, ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1889, and
rules framed in 1995.
The CM said that besides giving special training to cops in this
regard, non-government members have to be included in the
district-level monitoring cells, said SC/ST welfare secretary RM
Parmar, adding that the decision was also taken to include the theme
of prevention of atrocities on SCs and STs in the curriculum of police
training.
Besides, the CM directed the crime investigation department to review
the cases so that the conviction rate of people incriminated in
committing atrocities on SCs and STs is increased for the desired
impact.
While the district-level monitoring cells set up to look into the
cases of atrocities on SCs and STs have to meet every third month for
review, the state headquarters would soon issue a calendar in this
regard, the CM said and added that the participants would be intimated
about the meeting 15 days in advance so that they come prepared with
facts and figures regarding the actual situation.
Those who participated in the high-level meeting held at the CM
secretariat were deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi, SC/ST welfare minister
Jitan Ram Manjhi, chief secretary Anup Mukherjee, DGP Neelmani, and
home department principal secretary Amir Subhani. Besides, MPs Bhoodeo
Choudhary and Maheshwar Hajari, as well as MLAs Dinkar Ram, Ram Lakhan
Ram, Krishna Nandan Paswan, Manohar Prasad Singh, Sonelal Hembrom,
Ratnesh Sada, Ramchandra Sada, Shyam Bihari Ram, Santosh Kumar Nirala,
Amla Devi and Bhagirathi Devi also participated in the meeting. They
all gave their suggestions for further mitigation of the atrocities on
SCs/STs.
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