Police and social welfare dept will work on the handbook
Booklet on SC/ST rights, benefits soon
Madikeri, Nov 7, DHNS:
A hand book having information on protection and facilities available
to the SC/STs will be brought out soon.
Addressing the SC/ST Meet held in Madikeri District Superintendent of
Police Manjunath Annigeri said that there is lack of awareness with
regard to the facilities being extended to the SC/STs under various
schemes and the protection that the SC/STs are entitled to get. This
lack of awareness is affecting the SC/ST families dwelling in rural
areas specifically.
"Discussion will be held with the District Social Welfare Officer and
steps will be taken to distribute the hand book through 98 GPs in the
district," he said adding that such an attempt has already been made
in Dakshina Kannada district.
He said that strict action will be initiated against those police
officials who back out from filing complaints from SC/STs.
"Legal awareness camps are being held at various places in the
district and in the taluk. These camps must be held in rural areas,"
he said informing that the District Sessions Court will be urged to do
the needful in this regard.
Virajpet Taluk Dalit leaders Subbaiah and Kushalnagar Dalit leader
Damodar said that since there is no proper cremation ground the Dalits
in the district are facing lot of inconvenience. They said that steps
should be taken to allot land for the said purpose.
Bahujana Karmika Sangha President Hodduru Monappa said that dalit
workers are being assaulted in the district frequently. "Communalism
still has strong hold in the rural areas.
This must be rooted out," he said.
Suntikoppa Gram Panchayat Member Sandeep said that people are being
proselytised in the district unabated, which needs to be stopped.
Responding to the same, the SP said that choosing which faith to
follow is an individual's choice.
There can be no action taken against a person for changing his faith
however, if there has been coercive conversion or if the person has
been lured to change his faith then legal action can be taken against
the party which makes advances for the conversion.
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