Bangalore ranks third in atrocities against SC/STs
Published: Friday, Sep 16, 2011, 20:36 IST
By Merlin Francis | Place: Bangalore | Agency: DNA
Bangalore city ranks third in cases of atrocities against schedules
castes and schedules tribes (SC/STs) reported last year. It reported
85 cases of atrocities against SC/STs last year. Although this figure
was much less compared with 141 cases reported in 2008, it did not
improve much from 87 reported cases in 2009.
The city is ranked number three in the total number of atrocities
against SC/STs. In 2008, it reported the highest number cases in the
state.
Mandya saw an unprecedented surge in the number of atrocities
committed against SC/STs. Although ranked at 19 in 2009 with 39 cases
and 23 in 2008 with 29 cases, in 2010, the district saw 87 cases
against SC/STs.
Karnataka stands sixth with regard to atrocities committed against the
backward class, according to the report, even as the state government
continues to ignore their plight.The report, which was released at
Shasakara Bhavana by energy minister Shobha Karandlaje, traced the
atrocities committed against SC/STs in the light of the SCs/STs
(Prevention of Atrocities) Act 1989.
Releasing the report, Karandlaje said that a change in the mindset of
the people was needed to fight discrimination against SC/STs.
"Unless there is a change in the mindset of the people, rules will be
followed only out of fear and people will constantly find loopholes to
escape punishment. How long will we continue to discriminate against
our own people, be it with regard to religion or caste? It has to end
somewhere and the change has to come from the people. What is needed
is for all of us to work together, the government, religious leaders,
individual organisations working with the people as well as NGOs."
Motamma, leader of Opposition party, Vidhana Parishad, said that to
root out discrimination, there should be better awareness among
people, especially the youth.
"On Ambedkar Jayanthi, organise debates on the act and its
implementation. Discuss why there is discrimination and what needs to
be done to prevent it," she said.
Thangaraj, IAS, commissioner of state, information commission, said
effective action against culprits was one of the steps to ensure that
such incidents were not committed again. But focus should be more on
steps to prevent such atrocities than on punishment.
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