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[ZESTCaste] 4 arrested for sacrificing Dalit

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4 arrested for sacrificing Dalit

April 22nd, 2010
PTI
Four exorcists have been arrested for allegedly murdering a Dalit
youth at Mirzapur village in Saharanpur district, police said.

30-year-old Rajbir was strangulated to death by the accused on
Thursday, police said, adding his body was later found with his hands
and legs tied up with a rope.

Four exorcist Mahipal, Norati, Dharambir and Mahendri have been
arrested in this connection.

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[ZESTCaste] Nepal: Musahars, too poor to go to school

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Musahars, too poor to go to school
Last Updated : 2010-04-26 12:27 AM
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Rambabau Yadav

SIRAHA: Despite government campaigns to increase enrolment rate in
schools, children in this Musahar village in Siraha have always been
deprived of education.

The Musahar village in Siraha-9 is just next to the District Education
Office, the government mechanism in the district responsible for
leading the enrolment campaign. But still, nearly 123 children of
school-going age from 60 families have never been to a school.

According to Chalitar Sadaya, a local, there is no one in the entire
village that has passed fifth grade. "Everyone who goes to the
District Education Office can see this Musahar village, but no one has
shown interest in educating children of this community," he said.

Ten-year-old local Dharmendra Kumar Sadaya said he was never told by
anyone about the school enrolment campaign. He said, "We spend the
whole day guarding the house, looking after younger siblings and
goats."

Bouka Sada, another local, said though many people have asked him why
he did not send his children to school, no one ever asked him about
the problems he faces in sending the children to school. He said, "We
are poor and cannot afford to buy books, copies and other necessary
materials for school-going children."

The Musahar community in the district headquarters is just an example. The

government mechanism

has also failed to bring

children from other dalit communities in the district to school. In another

Musahar village of Lalpur-1, too, more than 100 children have been
deprived of education. And so is the case with more than 150 children
in the Musahar village of

Aurahi-8.

Kapleshwor Sadaya of Rishikul Sadaya Kalyan Samaj said that almost all
the people from Musahar community were landless and forced to labour
for very little daily wages so they were

unable to send their children to school.

He said, "The government thinks that constructing a school in the
local community is an all-time remedy, but it hardly assesses the
capacity of locals to send their children to school."

He also said that almost all the children from the 358 Musahar villages in the

district are deprived of education. He claimed, "The government should take

responsibility for educating children from the Musahar community, then only

will its enrolment campaign succeed,"

According to a survey of Dalit Janakalyan Yuba Club, Lahan, only four
per cent of the 75,000 Musahars in the district are literate. Only
five persons from the Musahar community are college graduates. And,
above all, 95 per cent of Musahar are landless in the district.

Tularam Tamang, head teacher of Shramik Primary School, Asanpur, said
that only five per cent of the

children enrolled during

the campaign were from

the Musahar community and most of them quit

before completing primary level.

Amit Bishwokarma, a local dalit rights activist, demanded a new plan
from the government level to include all dalit children in mainstream
education.

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[ZESTCaste] Haryana village appeals to Dalit families to return home

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Haryana village appeals to Dalit families to return home

April 26th, 2010 - 10:04 pm ICT by IANS -
Hisar (Haryana), April 26 (IANS) Residents of a Haryana village Monday
made an appeal to Dalit families, who had fled after clashes and arson
attack, to return home.
Nearly 20 families of Valmiki community in Mirchpur village fled after
an arson attack April 21. At least 15 houses were damaged and a
70-year-old Dalit man and his 18-year-old physically challenged
daughter were burnt alive.

"An appeal has been made at the all-community leaders' meeting of
Mirchpur village that was held here. It was attended by additional
deputy commissioner of Hisar and prominent personalities of the area,"
a government spokesperson said.

"Community leaders have observed that the whole incident and migration
of Valmiki families is highly disgraceful and regretful. They have
requested the families to immediately return to the village."

Police have arrested 25 people for the attack and said it resulted
from an old enmity between the two communities.

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[ZESTCaste] C'garh community leaders ask migrant Dalits to return

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C'garh community leaders ask migrant Dalits to return

STAFF WRITER 20:58 HRS IST
Chandigarh, Apr 26 (PTI) With the recent violence against Dalits in a
Haryana village triggering their exodus from there, community leaders
today appealed to them to return to their homes.

The appeal was made at the all-community leaders' meeting of Mirchpur
village held at Hisar today and presided over by Additional Deputy
Commissioner Ashok Kumar Garg, an official release said here.

A physically challenged girl was burnt alive and her father received
serious burn injuries when some persons set afire houses belonging to
Dalits at Mirchpur in Hisar district on April 21.

Terming the whole incident as "highly disgraceful and regretful", the
community leaders requested the Dalit families that have migrated from
the village to return to their homes.

The meeting put emphasis on setting up 'Sadbhavna Samitis' at the
village level so that recurrence of such incidents could be averted.

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[ZESTCaste] Dalit colony ‘removed' from panchayat jurisdiction

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Published: April 15, 2010 02:03 IST | Updated: April 15, 2010 02:03
IST VIRUDHUNAGAR, April 15, 2010

Dalit colony 'removed' from panchayat jurisdiction
S. Sundar

Complaints of water and other benefits being denied to them

Fourteen group houses constructed for Dalit families nine years back
have been 'removed' from a panchayat jurisdiction.

At a public hearing on violence against Dalits organised at
Aruppukottai on Wednesday, one of the beneficiaries narrated how the
families of Ambedkar Colony were denied development works.

The Suklampatti panchayat had passed resolution in December 2007 that
the 14 houses were outside the panchayat jurisdiction and hence no tax
could be collected from them. "Since we were not paying the tax, we
are denied drinking water, road facility and other government
benefits," said Jeyaraman.

Deposing before a panel of jurists, comprising Perambur MLA K.
Mahendran, State convenor of Tamil Nadu Untouchability Eradication Act
P. Sampath, High Court lawyer U. Nirmalarani, executive director of an
NGO, Evidence, A. Kathir, and former Chief Judicial Magistrate S.
Muthuraj, he said the Suklampatti panchayat had collected property tax
till 2006-07.

Replying to a petition under the Right to Information Act, the
Aruppukottai Revenue Divisional Officer, had confirmed in March 2008
that the colony came under the Suklampatti panchayat.

Mr. Jeyaraman alleged that the panchayat president, a caste Hindu, had
deliberately 'removed' the Dalits from the village to check the number
of Dalit votes in the local body.

Mr. Kathir said this kind of practice of untouchability was so novel
that the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act had no provision to deal
with it. "It is an attempt to destroy the identity [of a section of
the society]."

Mr. Mahendran said the panchayat president should be removed by the
Collector for his "discriminatory" action.

Ms. Nirmalarani said though the panel of jurists came to give their
opinion on the cases, it turned out to be a "learning" session.

Mr. Sampath said that if no proper action was taken in the case, the
Dalits would occupy the office of the Special Tahsildar, who had
allotted them the houses.

In another case, it was alleged that Aruppukottai municipal officials
had discriminated Dalit sanitary workers from caste Hindu sanitary
workers, who were given works which were not in keeping with the
nature of the job. They worked in the office as messengers. Besides,
they were given "out of turn" promotion as maistry, overlooking the
seniority of Dalit workers. Two of them who objected to it were
transferred out of Aruppukottai. Before they could come back to
Aruppukottai municipality, the promotion orders were issued. The
member of the jury flayed the "peace meetings" conducted by the
officials, which rendered no justice to the Dalits in cases of
violence against them. "It is only a katta panchayat," Mr. Kathir
said. The role of judiciary in dealing with cases of violence against
Dalits was also not satisfactory, he said.

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Monday, April 26, 2010

[ZESTCaste] 4 arrested for sacrificing Dalit

[ZESTCaste] Nepal: Musahars, too poor to go to school

[ZESTCaste] Haryana village appeals to Dalit families to return home

[ZESTCaste] C'garh community leaders ask migrant Dalits to return

[ZESTCaste] Dalit colony ‘removed' from panchayat jurisdiction

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