"Caste discrimination‚ untouchability to end"
Added At: 2011-06-11 3:00 PM
KATHMANDU: Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Krishna Bahadur
Mahara said caste-based discrimination and untouchability will come to
an end once the issue of state restructuring is resolved.
At a meeting of a sub-committee formed by Parliament's Women, Children
and Social Welfare Committee to study problems of caste-based
discrimination and untouchability and solutions, Home Minister Mahara
stressed the need for amending the laws and acts related to state
restructuring.
He informed that the government had already brought Caste-based
Discrimination and Untouchability (Crime and Punishment) Act and the
home administration is serious to implement as a campaign.
Formation of a judicial unit to hear in the central court and a
separate unit in local level to end caste-based discrimination is
going on in earnest, Mahara said.
"The state and political parties should present themselves positively
to end caste-based discrimination and untouchability and unite to
completely end this," he said.
In the meeting, Home Secretary Lila Mani Poudel said the home
administration is sensitive on the issues of caste-based
discrimination and untouchability and stressed for strict
implementation of the existing laws.
IGP Rabindra Pratap Shah said the police administration has been
actively working to end discrimination against the Dalit community.
In the meeting, committee coordinator Binod Pahadi and members Kamala
Sharma, Malabati Rana, Mangal Biswokarma, Puran Singh Dayal and Bimala
Nepal said the home administration should work to end the tendency of
refusing to receive complaints from Dalit people in some districts.
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