Latest News Update: Mar 17, 2012

Saturday, March 17, 2012

[ZESTCaste] Unique Lecture UNIQUE Academy has organised a lecture of Gopal Guru

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/speednewsshow/12309505.cms

SpeedNews
BetaReal-time updates via mobile by TOI reporters across India

Unique Lecture UNIQUE Academy has organised a lecture of Gopal Guru,
professor of political science, Jawaharlal Nehru University on
&lsquoPlace of caste in &lsquoglobal&rsquo India&rsquo at its premises
located opp. Balgandharva Rangmandir, behind Joshi Wadewale at
Shivajinagar tomorrow evening.
By Siddharth Gaikwad, Pune 12 hours ago via email

__._,_.___

Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web post | Start a New Topic

Messages in this topic (1)

Recent Activity:

Visit Your Group

----
INFORMATION OVERLOAD?
Get all ZESTCaste mails sent out in a span of 24 hours in a single mail. Subscribe to the daily digest version by sending a blank mail to ZESTMedia-digest@yahoogroups.com, OR, if you have a Yahoo! Id, change your settings at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/join/

PARTICIPATE:-
On this list you can share caste news, discuss caste issues and network with like-minded anti-caste people from across India and the world. Just write to zestcaste@yahoogroups.com

TELL FRIENDS TO SIGN UP:-
If you got this mail as a forward, subscribe to ZESTCaste by sending a blank mail to ZESTCaste-subscribe@yahoogroups.com OR, if you have a Yahoo! ID, by visiting http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/join/

Also have a look at our sister list, ZESTMedia: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/

Switch to: Text-Only, Daily Digest • Unsubscribe • Terms of Use

__,_._,___

[ZESTCaste] Dalits injured in clash with Gujjars

http://zeenews.india.com/news/uttar-pradesh/dalits-injured-in-clash-with-gujjars_763844.html

Dalits injured in clash with Gujjars
Last Updated: Wednesday, March 14, 2012, 23:27

Noida: Around a dozen Dalits were injured in a clash with Gujjars at
village Ramgarh in Dadri area on Wednesday.

Police quoted eyewitnesses as saying that they saw the clash between
Dalits and Gujjars at around 2.30pm and Dalits were allegedly being
beaten up.

Around seven injured were still in a hospital with fractured bones.

Police said the clash was the fall-out of an old enmity between the two groups.

Additional police personnel were deployed at the village to prevent
fresh outbreak of clash.

An FIR was lodged at Dadri police station late evening in connection
with the incident.

PTI

__._,_.___

Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web post | Start a New Topic

Messages in this topic (1)

Recent Activity:

Visit Your Group

Switch to: Text-Only, Daily Digest • Unsubscribe • Terms of Use

__,_._,___

[ZESTCaste] Vendetta? Akhilesh undoes Maya effect

http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_vendetta-akhilesh-undoes-maya-effect_1663887

Vendetta? Akhilesh undoes Maya effect
Published: Sunday, Mar 18, 2012, 10:15 IST | Updated: Sunday, Mar 18,
2012, 1:23 IST
By Deepak Gidwani | Place: Lucknow | Agency: DNA

Just two days old in the Uttar Pradesh chief minister's chair,
Akhilesh Yadav has started overturning his predecessor Mayawati's
decisions in a big way.

Among his first decisions, he has cut down the Dalit leader's
elaborate security. Over 400 police personnel posted for Mayawati's
security at her home and office have now been removed. She would now
get Z-plus security like any other former CM.

The number of cars in her cavalcade has been almost halved, and
security from her Delhi residence removed completely.
The government has, in fact, decided to review all the decisions taken
by the Mayawati regime over the past two months.

One of the Dalit icon's last decisions, taken on the day the results
came in, was to provide a driver and a peon to all retired chief
secretaries and cabinet secretaries.

The move was solely aimed to benefit Mayawati's Man Friday ex-cabinet
secretary Shashank Shekhar Singh. The decision has already been
challenged in court, but sources say it might be struck down even
before the petition is heard.

The new government is also expected to take a decision soon on the
Lokayukta's report recommending a CBI inquiry against Naseemuddin
Siddiqui, the senior-most minister in Mayawati's cabinet.

Earlier, Mayawati had returned the report challenging the Lokayukta's
authority to look into the matter, and summarily refusing to take any
action based on his report. Siddiqui faces serious charges related to
corruption and amassing disproportionate assets.

Interestingly, UP Lokayukta NK Mehrotra, who was to retire on March
15, has been given a two-year extension.

The Samajwadi Party government has passed orders to freeze all
recruitment exercises initiated by the previous government. All top
bureaucrats who ruled the roost during Mayawati's regime have been
stripped of their posts and kept in waiting.

All political appointments made for the posts of chairmen in various
boards, corporations and commissions have also been cancelled with
immediate effect.

The State Advisory Council, a powerful body constituted under BSP MP
and Mayawati's legal eagle Satish Chandra Mishra, has been dissolved
by the new government.

In a major shift, powers of the chief secretary have been restored
completely. In the previous regime, the chief secretary was
overshadowed by the cabinet secretary, a post which has now been done
away with. Akhilesh has also promised to establish an enquiry
commission to get all charges of corruption against the previous
government investigated.

------------------------------------

PARTICIPATE:-
On this list you can share caste news, discuss caste issues and network with like-minded anti-caste people from across India and the world. Just write to zestcaste@yahoogroups.com

TELL FRIENDS TO SIGN UP:-
If you got this mail as a forward, subscribe to ZESTCaste by sending a blank mail to ZESTCaste-subscribe@yahoogroups.com OR, if you have a Yahoo! ID, by visiting http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/join/

Also have a look at our sister list, ZESTMedia: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/

<*> Your email settings:
Individual Email | Traditional

<*> To change settings online go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/join
(Yahoo! ID required)

<*> To change settings via email:
ZESTCaste-digest@yahoogroups.com
ZESTCaste-fullfeatured@yahoogroups.com

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
ZESTCaste-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

[ZESTCaste] Dalit party upset with Sena-BJP in Maharashtra

http://twocircles.net/2012mar17/dalit_party_upset_senabjp_maharashtra.html

Dalit party upset with Sena-BJP in Maharashtra
Submitted by admin4 on 17 March 2012 - 7:42pm

By IANS,

Mumbai : Barely a month after the civic elections in Maharashtra,
cracks seemed to have appeared in the Republican Party of India's
(RPI) ties with the Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party (SS-BJP)
alliance, sources said Saturday.

Stung by the denial of a Rajya Sabha nomination to RPI chief Ramdas
Athavale, the party has decided to discard all the alliance posts
allotted to it by the SS-BJP as a mark of protest by the Dalits, a
party leader said.

The Sena recently announced the nomination of Anil Desai as a Rajya
Sabha candidate, rejecting former Lok Sabha speaker Manohar Joshi. The
RPI hoped its nominee would be accommodated in place of Joshi.

"We have never sought a Rajya Sabha nomination, but we were expecting
it since we have wholeheartedly contributed to the SS-BJP's victory in
Mumbai, Thane and its good showing in other parts of the state," said
party spokesperson Arun Dangle.

RPI legislator Sumantrao Gaekwad asserted that the party would
continue to remain with the SS-BJP alliance despite the denial of a
Rajya Sabha ticket.

"Our aim was not to secure a Rajya Sabha ticket, but to trounce the
ruling Congress-Nationalist Congress Party, not only in the recent
civic elections, but also in the forthcoming 2014 assembly elections,"
Gaekwad said, at a joint media interaction here with Dangle.

The RPI had decided to discard all the alliance posts allotted to it
by the SS-BJP, Dangle said.

He added that Athavale would shortly meet Shiv Sena chief Bal
Thackeray and executive president Uddhav Thackeray in this regard.

The RPI leaders claimed that the RPI's support had widened the support
base of the SS-BJP in the recent civic elections all over Maharashtra.

However, they pointed out that barring Mumbai, the RPI nominees did
not get the advantage of SS-BJP votes in any other civic body in the
state.

__._,_.___

Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web post | Start a New Topic

Messages in this topic (1)

Recent Activity:

Visit Your Group

Switch to: Text-Only, Daily Digest • Unsubscribe • Terms of Use

__,_._,___

[ZESTCaste] Ahead of coronation, Akhilesh's partymen thrash Dalits

http://daily.bhaskar.com/article/UP-akhileshs-partymen-thrash-dalit-in-mayas-village-2975908.html?RHS-top_news=

Ahead of coronation, Akhilesh's partymen thrash Dalits

Source: Dailybhaskar.com | Last Updated 12:17(15/03/12)

New Delhi: With just few hours to go before the Akhilesh Yadav-led
Samajawadi Party government takes charge in UP, the lawlessness by
the SP workers in the state has yet again started to show.

In continuation of violence reported across Uttar Pradesh after the
SP's victory in the assembly elections, over a dozen Dalits were
thrashed by party workers in the Dadri area, where outgoing CM and BSP
supremo Mayawati's ancestral village, Badalpur, is located.

According to the media reports, a few SP workers allegedly thrashed
dalits in Ramgarh area in Dadri on Wednesday over a petty issue.

Local residents said that after the incident, the Ramgarh village head
and his family members and supporters brutally thrashed the dalit
group in which at least 20 people were injured, six of them
critically.

Among the injured are women who have been admitted to hospitals with
fractured bones.

Tension prevails in the area even as additional police personnel were
deployed at the village to prevent fresh outbreak of clash.

An FIR was lodged at Dadri police station late evening in connection
with the incident.

------------------------------------

PARTICIPATE:-
On this list you can share caste news, discuss caste issues and network with like-minded anti-caste people from across India and the world. Just write to zestcaste@yahoogroups.com

Also have a look at our sister list, ZESTMedia: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/

<*> Your email settings:
Individual Email | Traditional

<*> To change settings online go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/join
(Yahoo! ID required)

<*> To change settings via email:
ZESTCaste-digest@yahoogroups.com
ZESTCaste-fullfeatured@yahoogroups.com

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
ZESTCaste-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

[ZESTCaste] Cop made us prostrate, alleges dalit

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/cop-made-us-prostrate-alleges-dalit/239754-60-118.html

Tamil Nadu | Posted on Mar 16, 2012 at 08:02am IST
Cop made us prostrate, alleges dalit
indianexpressExpress News Service

TIRUCHY: A Dalit here has alleged that he and his family were forced
to prostrate before a caste Christian family by a police inspector
following a tiff.

The victim, A Karuppaiah (57), a resident of Crawford and a vessel
merchant, stated in his complaint lodged with the DCP here that his
family had a quarrel with his neighbour Arputhraj, a Christian.

Arputharaj, it is said, wanted to buy the house in which Karuppaiah
and his family were living for rent.

As the owner of the house refused to vacate the family and sell his
house, Arputharaj had been troubling the Dalit family. This resulted
in frequent quarrels between the two families.

A few days ago, a goat belonging to Karuppaiah was grazing near
Arputharaj's house. This sparked another quarrel and it is alleged
that Arputharaj and his wife Amali threw stones at Karuppaiah and his
wife and used filthy language against them, threatening them to vacate
the place.

Karuppaiah, in his complaint, stated: "Before I was planning to lodge
a complaint with the police in this regard, Arputharaj lodged a
complaint. Since then, Amali and her mother used to irritate our
family by throwing rubbish inside our house."

On March 12, the E Pudhur police had summoned Karuppaiah and his son Manikandan.

At the police station, they were reportedly made to wait till 10 pm.
After a while, Amali and her mother arrived at the station and it is
said, Inspector Rajendran asked Karuppaiah and his son to prostrate
before them. "The inspector caned us on the hand and let us off," he
said.

When contacted, Inspector Rajendran said, "As it was a long-standing
issue between the two families, I intervened and tried to solve it by
asking both parties to give a letter of compromise to end the quarrel.
I never forced Karuppaiah to prostrate. It is all framed," he� said.

__._,_.___

Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web post | Start a New Topic

Messages in this topic (1)

Recent Activity:

Visit Your Group

Switch to: Text-Only, Daily Digest • Unsubscribe • Terms of Use

__,_._,___

[ZESTCaste] Pakistan: Only 10% of Dalit girls have access to primary schools

http://tribune.com.pk/story/351145/only-10-of-dalit-girls-have-access-to-primary-schools/

Only 10% of Dalit girls have access to primary schools
By Our Correspondent
Published: March 17, 2012

Around 87 per cent of Dalit women and 63.5 per cent of Dalit men in
the country are illiterate, says report. PHOTO: FILE

KARACHI: Around 87 per cent of Dalit women and 63.5 per cent of Dalit
men in the country are illiterate, said the International Dalit
Solidarity Network's (ISIN) annual report.

A large number of them do not have Computerised National Identity
Cards. It portrayed a bleak picture of the community in India,
Bangladesh and Pakistan. The national primary enrollment rate of
Dalits was 48 per cent but only 10 per cent of Dalit girls had access
to primary schools and less than one per cent of Dalit women had
studied till the eighth grade. It stated that during the floods,
Dalits were discriminated against and were not allowed to live in
relief camps. There are an estimated seven million Dalits in Pakistan,
out of which 3.5 million live in flood-affected areas of Sindh. Nearly
70 per cent of these Dalits were labourers. The report suggested that
Dalits have no representation in parliament.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 17th, 2012.

------------------------------------

PARTICIPATE:-
On this list you can share caste news, discuss caste issues and network with like-minded anti-caste people from across India and the world. Just write to zestcaste@yahoogroups.com

Also have a look at our sister list, ZESTMedia: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/

<*> Your email settings:
Individual Email | Traditional

<*> To change settings online go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/join
(Yahoo! ID required)

<*> To change settings via email:
ZESTCaste-digest@yahoogroups.com
ZESTCaste-fullfeatured@yahoogroups.com

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
ZESTCaste-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

[ZESTCaste] Satara Dalit woman atrocity case: police officer suspended

http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/satara-dalit-woman-atrocity-case-police-officer-suspended/976183.html

Satara Dalit woman atrocity case: police officer suspended
PTI | 06:03 PM,Mar 16,2012

Mumbai, Mar 16 (PTI) Maharashtra Government today announced the
suspension of concerned officer of Patan tehsil police station at
Mulgaon in Satara district in connection with the parading of a Dalit
woman in January this year. "The concerned officer, who showed laxity
in registering a case against the accused, is suspended," Minister of
State for Home, Satej Patil, said in the Legislative Council. The
government was serious about the issue and was not shielding anybody,
he added. The woman was allegedly paraded naked by members of an upper
caste family after her son eloped with a girl from the family. Shiv
Sena MLC Diwakar Raote said, "Why the opposition had to demand his
suspension, when the incident had occurred three months ago?" The
government should have registered a case against the officer on its
own rather than waiting for the discussion to take place in the house,
Raote said. "Suspending the officer will not serve any purpose...he
should be dismissed from his service," he added. PTI KVS KRK

__._,_.___

Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web post | Start a New Topic

Messages in this topic (1)

Recent Activity:

Visit Your Group

Switch to: Text-Only, Daily Digest • Unsubscribe • Terms of Use

__,_._,___

[ZESTCaste] Mayawati's security scaled down

http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_mayawati-s-security-scaled-down_1663554

Mayawati's security scaled down
Published: Saturday, Mar 17, 2012, 11:20 IST
Place: Lucknow | Agency: PTI

The security of BSP president Mayawati has been scaled down to that of
a 'former chief minister'.

A government official on Saturday said the security personnel deployed
at her residence in Lucknow and Delhi have been reduced to her present
status of former chief minister.

The strength of her security personnel at these places was earlier
around 400, the official said.

The number of vehicles in her convoy has also been cut down to ten from forty.

Mayawati would, however, have Z-Plus category security, the official said.

Meanwhile, Akhilesh Yadav has been extended security granted to the
state chief minister, he added.

__._,_.___

Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web post | Start a New Topic

Messages in this topic (1)

Recent Activity:

Visit Your Group

Switch to: Text-Only, Daily Digest • Unsubscribe • Terms of Use

__,_._,___

[ZESTCaste] Jagjivan Ram's grand-daughter floats party

http://zeenews.india.com/news/haryana/jagjivan-ram-s-grand-daughter-floats-party_764270.html

Jagjivan Ram's grand-daughter floats party
Last Updated: Saturday, March 17, 2012, 00:02

Faridabad: Floating a new party, former prime minister Jagjivan Ram's
grand-daughter Medhavi Kirti on Friday said it will field candidates
in several states in the next general election.

"The Babu Jagjivan Ram Baba Saheb Ambedkar National Congress Party
will work to fulfil the dreams of my grandfather," Kirti said at a
press conference.

She said the party was preparing to field candidates in Haryana,
Bihar, Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh in the 2014 Lok Sabha
elections.

Kirti, who had won from Jhajjar in 1987 and was a minister in Haryana
government, said he had stayed away from politics all these years due
to family problems.

PTI

__._,_.___

Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web post | Start a New Topic

Messages in this topic (1)

Recent Activity:

Visit Your Group

Switch to: Text-Only, Daily Digest • Unsubscribe • Terms of Use

__,_._,___

[ZESTCaste] ‘CM Mulayam’ secy is now CM Akhilesh’s secy

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/-CM-Mulayam--secy-is-now-CM-Akhilesh-s-secy/924466/

'CM Mulayam' secy is now CM Akhilesh's secy

Express News Service Posted online: Fri Mar 16 2012, 02:10 hrs
Lucknow : Anita Singh, a 1990-batch IAS officer, was posted as
secretary to the Chief Minister on Thursday. She had served as
secretary to the chief minister during the previous Samajwadi Party
government when Mulayam Singh was CM.

Anita Singh promptly moved into the chamber which was occupied by
Mayawati's cabinet secretary Shashank Shekhar Singh. She retained her
earlier charge of secretary, administrative reforms, and was also
given civil aviation and estate departments.

The other secretary to the chief minister is Alok Kumar, who was
serving as Director General of Stamp and Registration.

Rajiv Kumar, a 1983-batch officer, who was Divisional Commissioner of
Faizabad and secretary of Land Revenue management, was posted as
Principal Secretary, Appointment and Personnel, along with Vigilance.

Rajendra Mohan, a 1982-batch officer, who was Principal Secretary, UP
Reorganisation Co-ordination Department, was posted Principal
Secretary, Home.

Pandhary Yadav, Juhairbin Sagir and PCS officer Shambhu Singh Yadav
were posted as special secretaries in the Chief Minister's Office.

Hira Lal Gupta was posted as special secretary, appointments; Raj
Kishore Yadav as special secretary, estate department; and Jai Prakash
Singh as special secretary, health.

Navneet Sehgal, Kuwan Fateh Bahadur, Netram and Ravindra Singh, who
were in the secretariat of Mayawati, have been kept waiting for a
posting.

------------------------------------

PARTICIPATE:-
On this list you can share caste news, discuss caste issues and network with like-minded anti-caste people from across India and the world. Just write to zestcaste@yahoogroups.com

Also have a look at our sister list, ZESTMedia: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/

<*> Your email settings:
Individual Email | Traditional

<*> To change settings online go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/join
(Yahoo! ID required)

<*> To change settings via email:
ZESTCaste-digest@yahoogroups.com
ZESTCaste-fullfeatured@yahoogroups.com

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
ZESTCaste-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/